On Saturday 29 May 2004, jimregan at o2.ie (Jimmy O'Regan) wrote:
>>I've signed up for the free trial and I'm wonder do you have to do
>>anything special Linux-wise to get the modem to work? I'm running Red Hat 9
>>with kernel 2.4.20. I've got a creakingingly old Dell laptop here, and the
>>USB works grand. I don't want to have to spend a few of my free 90 days
>>trying to get my modem to work. Has anyone had any trouble?
>>>>>I'm using the Ethernet connection, but basically all that was involved
>was installing pppoe.
So if you use the Ethernet bit of that modem, all it does is bridge? The modem
itself doesn't then do PPPoE ?
Niall
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