> BYW I heard a horror story about BT's ADSL service - apparently the box is
> connected to your PC by USB - I don't imagine your chances of finding a
> driver for Linux for that are high. I believe some of you have
participated
> in ADSL trials - what's the connection to the ADSL box ?
>I'm mot on the adsl trials, but I was handed some software to look at a few
months ago.
It was PPPoE, so it was a standard ethernet connection to the box, and as
far as I know it hasn't changed.
There was a floppy to set it up for linux as well (and it was a lot less
messy than the windows installation (only thing I had to remember was to
change permissions on one of the files)
John
(Indigo)
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