[Gllug] BT ADSL and USB

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Axel Segebrecht wrote:

>
> hi all,
>
> i know we had this topic b4 - it's just - er - u know - my brains ...
>
> bt finally managed to upgrade my line capacity and i am waiting for
> one of those useless chaps to arrive and 'install' adsl.
>
> 1.) does the supplied usb modem work on linux (md7.2)?

Yes.  Use the Benoit driver from
http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index.en.html

> 2.) is the internal pci modem (somewhere on www.adslinfo something)
> or similar worth getting instead of fiddling with the above?

No, probably.

> 3.) is it possible to give the rest of my lan access to the adsl via sambar?

Sambar?  Do you mean samba?  If so, yes and no.

Samba is something completely different, but you can give your LAN access to
the ADSL using IP masquerading...

> many thanks in advance :-)

Cheers
Richard


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