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[Ifor Lewis]

>I would say that the only area you have to watch is with Broadband
>hardware.  When I tried to get my BT Broadband connection working
>last month the best advice (see below) that I could get here, was to
>circumvent the problem by getting an ADSL router instead of an
>ADSL modem.  Which I did -

Up until a couple of months ago when I moved down to Berkshire from 
Birmingham, I had been using BT's Home 500 ADSL service practically since it 
came out (the engineer fitted it) and had it running fine under Linux using 
Red Hat 7 and then Mandrake 9.

With Red Hat 7 i installed the source code from a French guy who wrote it 
and had to configure /etc/ppp/peers/adsl and all those other files needed...

Mandrake 9 has a package speedtouch which copes fine with the Alcatel 
Speedtouch (green bug) USB modem, offers installation and configuration in 
the install procedure and worked flawlessly for me. There are 'official' 
drivers for the Alcatel modem but these should be avoided. Also needed was 
the microcode for the driver which has to be downloaded from the web or 
taken from your windows install.

I had no need to buy a router or any other hardware and it worked fine for 
me.

Nowadays I'm on a crappy dial-up. Oh well, whenever I move I'll buy 
broadband again...

Ifor

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