From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:46:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20909 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20802 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:45:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01379; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ben Pepa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ADSL with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > > ADSL in the United States is evolving so you have an independent box that > > has an DSL port and an ethernet port. > > > > Can you get more details from the provider? What type of device is it? An > > internal card or standalone box? > > They told me it is a ADSL modem (external standalone like you regular > 28.8 modem) that has the copper RJ-11 phone jack which spilts into to > lines: 1 RJ-11 Phone line for standard telephone calls and the other is a > RJ-45 10BaseT Ethernet connection for your computer. 3 Jacks total. They > won't tell me much more about it... OK, you have the same that we have. I don't know about logging in, but if you have Ethernet out there should be no further action required on your part. You might have to go into the modem and poke it to start the connection. See if you can get a hold of a tech. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message