From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 13:42:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15DA37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0ILgL757419; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:42:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3A67633D.ADCF4B1B@thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:42:21 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tresstatus@bsdpunk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bellsouth dsl? References: <200101182138.QAA03644@smtp6.mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG steve wrote: > > > > > I recently found out that bellsouth dsl will soon be available in my > > area. > > So, like any broke college student, their free dialup acct till > > availability looked good. I called em up and started to sign up for the > > acct. We got to the OS question and it came to a halt. The woman swore > > up > > and down that their modem (usb) would not work with anything but windows > > or > > mac. Is this true? (i doubt it). Does anyone have experience setting up > > dsl from bellsouth on freebsd? I'm fairly sure it'll work, but I wanna > > know before I call back and lie and say I use windows. =) > > Last mention was 2 weeks ago and none of the Free OSs support USB DSL modems. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Life begins at 4.0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message