From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 10:33: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5F937B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:33:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from port995.com (port995.com [213.162.97.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0144443F93 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: by port995.com (Port995 Mail, from userid 77) id D850A14076D6; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cream.org (pc-80-195-57-71-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [80.195.57.71]) by port995.com (Port995 Mail) with ESMTP id CEA4714076A9; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:32:52 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3E7DFDDD.6070106@cream.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:33:01 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030321 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: taxman Cc: DJ Boris , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: supported USB ADSL modems References: <005501c2f155$69581690$b9cd07c4@d> <200303231232.11799.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <200303231232.11799.taxman@acd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG taxman wrote: >On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:00 am, DJ Boris wrote: > > >>hi there, >> >>where can I find out what USB ADSL modems are supported by freeBSD. >>I am using 5.0-release and thinking of getting ADSL. >>Can anyone help? >> >> > >Well if they were supported, they would most likely be listed in the hardware >page for your release listed on the FreeBSD homepage. > >I don't think any USB ADSL modems are supported but I could be wrong. Try to >get them to give you an ethernet version. Most anything that connects by >ethernet would be supported. They may tell you they can't, but if you press >them, they almost always have some ethernet hardware available. > I believe there is support for Alcatel SpeedTouch modems using net/pppoa from ports. I've no experience with it however. If you ask me an ethernet interface is always better for networking tasks. You may also be interested to know that Bruce Simpson is working on a driver for the Efficent Networks SpeedStream 3060 line of xDSL PCI Cards. The driver isn't working yet but you can contact him for details about helping him test it. Cheers. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message