On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:34, J.C. Roberts wrote: > You seem to be confused on your terms. The term "PPPoA" means > Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (Asyncronous Transfer Mode). I > seriously doubt you're running ADSL over ATM. ;-)
You must now stand corrected :-) In Britain (and probably the rest of Europe), that is precisely how ADSL is done - with ATM (rather than PPPoE, which is how it's done in North America). There are probably more ATM over ADSL installations in the world than there are Ethernet over ADSL connections! To answer the original poster, the only common ADSL modem I've found that's supported by non-Windows operating systems is the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB (there are probably others, but the SpeedTouch USB is probably the most widely used and supported). There is a project with userland drivers which works on Linux and all the BSDs as far as I'm aware. I've been using OpenBSD on a Sun Ultra 5 with one of these USB ADSL modems. Your starting point should probably be: http://www.xsproject.org/speedtouch/
