Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:28:04 -0700 (MST) From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: tresstatus@bsdpunk.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bellsouth dsl? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101181520020.3870-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A67633D.ADCF4B1B@thehousleys.net>
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Last mention was by me and it was for a PCI Intel 2100. Needless to say, since I got the sum total of ONE offlist response, it slipped my mind to do a summary :/ It looks ATM like DSL modem + FreeBSD = SOL. I would be more than happy to be proven wrong, but I'm doubting it'll happen. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, James Housley wrote: >steve wrote: >> >> > >> > 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). Does anyone have experience setting up >> > dsl from bellsouth on freebsd? I'm fairly sure it'll work, but I wanna >> > know before I call back and lie and say I use windows. =) >> > >Last mention was 2 weeks ago and none of the Free OSs support USB DSL >modems. > >Jim > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email galt@inconnu.isu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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