[Scottish] ADSL connection gotchas?

[Skoby]

If you have any problems with installing the speedtouch let me know,
had a few problems with it myself and it required some modifications
to the drivers. Used it for about 4 months then chucked it for a
spiffy new ethernet modem.

On 9/16/05, John Ollason <john at ardgrain.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am becoming fed up with my demon dial-up service, and by chance I have
> inherited a Speedtouch USB ADSL modem. I am planning to try to connect to
> plus.net using the Premier package. I have downloaded linux firmware from
> the speedtouch site,
> 
> I am currently running Redhat 7.3.
> 
> I have downloaded and installed the
> 
> speedtouch-1.2-8rh rpm
> 
> I have followed
> 
> SpeedTouchUSB-HOWTO using Benoit Papillault's OpenSource drivers
> 
> and set the configuration files except for some details to be established.
> 
> I have spoken to plus.net and they seem to be reasonably linux-friendly.
> 
> I think  that I am more or less ready to go. Are there any absolute
> horrors that I ought to be thinking about?
> 
> I did have a look at ipchains, which seems to have been installed by
> default, but I get the following message:
> 
> $ ipchains --list
> ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
> 
> Is this likely to be a problem?
> 
> John O.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Skoby