From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 13:57:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (ns1.arch.bellsouth.net [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514D637B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA23312; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:56:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from UNKNOWN(24.31.106.127), claiming to be "bar" via SMTP by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net, id smtpdAAAdr3H7_; Sat Jan 20 16:56:50 2001 From: "Christian Kuhtz" To: "freebsd-questions" Cc: "Mark B. Withers" , "Bill Moran" Subject: RE: bellsouth dsl? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:56:24 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010120115453.F3857@arrakis.desert-power.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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 party line is this: only windows or mac will work, yes. If you get other stuff to work, cool, just don't call tech support if it doesn't. I would be interested in finding out if FreeBSD/Linux actually do work. Perhaps not the ideal thing for non-windows or non-mac users, but that's the way tech support usually works: a specific set of known working configurations are supported. Sorry. ;-( I'd love to hear feedback from people, though, as to whether they get it to work with the USB version. Btw: Have you tried to request a non-USB modem? [..] > > 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. [..] AFAIK, we're presently deploying the following modems: alcatel 1000 (ethernet modem for pppoe) surestream 4060 (efficient) usb speedstream 3060 (efficient) internal pci i believe Thanks, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz -wk, -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message