From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 10:42:38 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 10E9937B404 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from port995.com (port995.com [213.162.97.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B786A43F3F for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:42:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: by port995.com (Port995 Mail, from userid 77) id 8755014076D6; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:42:26 +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 0D00614076C9; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:42:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3E7E001B.5050401@cream.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:42:35 +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: DJ Boris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: supported USB ADSL modems References: <005501c2f155$69581690$b9cd07c4@d> <200303231232.11799.taxman@acd.net> <008101c2f16a$da3e2b50$b9cd07c4@d> In-Reply-To: <008101c2f16a$da3e2b50$b9cd07c4@d> 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 DJ Boris wrote: >I have done some reading and you are right. I can't see any USB ADSL >supported modems... there are some Alcatels but people are having probs with >them. If I understand correctly the Ethernet ADSL modems aren't dependant on >host drivers. Am I correct? Does that mean that I can use them under fbsd? >Can you give me some guidelines? > That's right. Anything that presents an Ethernet connection is simply going to be accessed by a normal Ethernet card in your PC, and you shouldn't have any trouble getting one of them to work. ;) I believe that ADSL might need something PPPoE to login to your provider, but FreeBSD's PPP support should provide that no problem. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message