[H-GEN] adsl provider and modems

David Duffy david at audiovisualdevices.com.au
Wed Sep 11 18:31:16 EDT 2002


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Nikolai:
>I did a telstra dsl install for a business, it was an Alcatel Speedtouch
>USB modem. I fought with the thing for about a day and a half to get the
>kernel module working properly then i couldn't find either working
>source for pppoa or the code for the ATM-to-Ethernet bridge that was
>written a couple of years back. I ended up using IPCop for them as it
>had support for it out of the box and meant that I didn't have to screw
>around with it any longer.  I would say stay away from USB in genreal,
>my experiences (limited as they are) with it have all been bad.

Rob Brockway helped a friend with Telstra ADSL and it was a real pain
to get going. My static Internode one here was very easy by comparison.
Regards...
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