From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 20:27:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206ED37B536 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08383 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:27:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (areca-22-028090.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.90]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma008206; Mon, 7 Aug 00 22:27:22 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA48014 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:17:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:17:23 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Getting DSL for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000807221723.A48000@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm thinking of getting a DSL but am a bit confused on what to ask the companies to ensure that the line will work with FreeBSD. I assume that even if they don't advertise it to work with FreeBSD, in some cases it probably does. If a company doesn't explicitly advertise "works with UNIX" (Telocity is the only one I've seen that does this), what questions can I ask that will convince me that it does? Do I just have to be sure that the NIC card they want to install has a driver that can be added to the kernel config? Also, I've read that the local telco (Ameritech) "will only work with Windows" and uses an ATM NIC. Is that bad? And I guess I could throw this in: And DSL company recommendations? -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message