Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:49:41 +1000 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 USB + FreeBSD 5.2.1 + PPPoE -- a nightmare! Message-ID: <20040829174941.GA23830@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <50295.81.84.174.8.1093722612.squirrel@81.84.174.8> References: <50295.81.84.174.8.1093722612.squirrel@81.84.174.8>
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Hugo Silva (klr@6s-gaming.com) [040829 08:53]: > Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation, > trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and > he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections > to the net. So I did some pre-reading on the handbook and some tutorials.. > I tried configuring one of these things for FreeBSD. The web page directions were extremely simple, with the minor problem that they, ahh, didn't work. (Even had a bit on UK connections - I'm in the UK.) I never did get it to work right. I am now using a Speedtouch 510, which does the connection itself, and can be confitured using a web interface (it was *easier* to configure using the web interface via FreeBSD than using its custom application on Windows!) or even by telneting directly to the device - ah, bliss ;-) - d.
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