[Gllug] Recommendations for network card and adsl modem (or router)

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:46, Peter John Cameron wrote:
> After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel
> speedtouch modem. Short of throwing it out the window, I can't do anything
> with it other than initialise it. I tried PPPoA and got nothing beyond LCP
> timeouts. I tried PPPoE (with a downloaded br2684ctl) and though I get
> "ifconfig nas0" returning an ethernet address etc., the "pppd nas0 &" call
> complains about nas0 being unknown. Ho hum. I give up.

How given up are you? I'm using a speedtouch, as are two of my
colleagues. All three of us have had good experiences with it.

One crucial thing for painlessness, AFAIK is to use the userland
speedtouch drivers http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/. 

I'm using debian woody on the gateway machine, but I did try it on a
RH8.0beta briefly and it seemed to work just as well/easily. I could
bundle up the config required if it would help you.

Simon

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