Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:56:24 -0500 From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@gnu.org> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Subject: RE: bellsouth dsl? Message-ID: <NEBBJKIJGLMGELMBGHEOKENDDFAA.ck@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010120115453.F3857@arrakis.desert-power.org>
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> > > > 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). [..] The party line is this: only windows or mac will work, yes. If you get other stuff to work, cool, just don't call tech support if it doesn't. I would be interested in finding out if FreeBSD/Linux actually do work. Perhaps not the ideal thing for non-windows or non-mac users, but that's the way tech support usually works: a specific set of known working configurations are supported. Sorry. ;-( I'd love to hear feedback from people, though, as to whether they get it to work with the USB version. Btw: Have you tried to request a non-USB modem? [..] > > Find out make/model of the modem and send it to the list. If it's a > > modem, it's either supported hardware or not. If not, it still might > > work, but it's a gamble at that point. [..] AFAIK, we're presently deploying the following modems: alcatel 1000 (ethernet modem for pppoe) surestream 4060 (efficient) usb speedstream 3060 (efficient) internal pci i believe Thanks, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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