From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 8:54:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.one.net (mail4.one.net [206.112.192.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2819837B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip-216-23-54-58.adsl.one.net ([216.23.54.58] EHLO arrakis.desert-power.org ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 36613]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <121353-20820>; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:54:29 -0500 Received: (from mwithers@localhost) by arrakis.desert-power.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04754; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:54:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwithers) From: "Mark B. Withers" To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: bellsouth dsl? Message-ID: <20010120115453.F3857@arrakis.desert-power.org> References: <200101182138.QAA03644@smtp6.mindspring.com> <3A6765B7.A7840027@mail.iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A6765B7.A7840027@mail.iowna.com>; from wmoran@mail.iowna.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:57:13PM -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:54:15 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would just like to chime in here. I'm using a DSL modem myself with FreeBSD, but it's not a USB modem. However there are adapters for those types of things. :) Or you could just plug the DSL modem into a hub and use the hub. I connect to my ISP through a text-based web page using Lynx to log in. Pretty primative, however there are Perl utilities to make the connection for you. I just use dhcp client on the ethernet interface and everything else happens without any problems. Mark On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:57:13PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > 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). > > The woman you talked to probably has no experience whatsoever with > computers, and wouldn't know Linux from FreeBSD. However, her script > tells her that it's only compatible with Windows, so that's what she > says. I think it's bullshit. Basically, by sticking to Windows only, > they can hire uneducated support personnel who can answer 95% of the > questions off of a script. Thus we have Bill's Law: "For every 1000 > people using a computer, one of them knows what he's doing." > > > > 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. =) > > Find out make/model of the modem and send it to the list. If it's a > modem, it's either supported hardware or not. If not, it still might > work, but it's a gamble at that point. > > -Bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message