* Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > > Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't > > work. She said that since they use pppoe and not dhcp, I couldn't get > > an ip address with a dhcp client. But Debian has a pppoe package, and > > there are also things like rp-pppoe. Although she could not explain to > > me why it wouldn't work, she was absolutely positive it wouldn't. > > There is some truth to what the woman told you. I just a couple of > weeks ago switched over to SBC/Yahoo. I spent an extra few bucks and > got the 1.2Mb/256Kb service and it has been rock solid at exactly those > rates. I'm running Debian, but I'm connecting via a D-Link DI-614+, so > I'm not using Debian's pppoe. I did not do the initial connection via > the D-Link, because they do not give you a user-id and you cannot > connect without one. Instead, I initially used their install CD on a > Windows-XP machine. They install a ton of very ugly garbage on your > machine and offer no way of skipping that step even though you actually > need none of it. Doing it their way, you cannot get a user ID nor set > your password (both required for pppoe of course) until you get past the > software install step.
I mentioned the website www.dslreports.com in another post in this thread and it would be helpful to you too -- or would have been. It is NOT necessary to use the "Install CD". Too late for you though... Regards Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
