[Wolves] ADSL or cable broadband?

[Matthew Revell]

Cheers for the advice. Sounds vastly more complicated than Blueyonder,
which was as difficult as plugging the rj45 plug into ethernet card :)

trog said:
> On Saturday 31 January 2004  1:15 pm, you wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience of running ADSL from Linux, or are you
>> guys all Blueyonder? There's some really good ADSL deals out there, at
>> the
>> mo, and I'd much prefer a BT line ... but Blueyonder seems so much
>> easier
>> to run from Linux. Any thoughts?
>
> ADSL from Demon using the purple frog (the speedtouch)
> The only grief that I had getting it to work was getting a pppoa daemon.
> There are two drivers for the speedtouch, one from Benoit Papillault which
> runs in the userspace and one that has to be compiled into tke kernel,
> which
> is known as speedbundle.
>
> I started off by installing the former, but I could not find a pppoa
> daemon
> so I gave up with it.  There are links in the supplied documentation that
> supposedly point to said daemon, but I could not find them.  Since I
> couldn't
> get this to run, I went the speedbundle route.
>
> I had terrible problems getting the thing to compile.  I am not a C
> programmer, and I do not understand how a C program determines which
> path to search when using libraries.  During compilation I was getting
> many
> dependency issues.  All of the necessary libs were on my box, just in the
> wrong place.  Eventually, after copying a few libs around I got it to
> compile.  Actually, the bit that wouldn't compile was the pppoe daemon.
>
> Knowing what I do now, if I was to have to install ADSL again, I'd opt for
> the other drivers as they do not involve recompiling the kernel (and there
> is
> a lot less junk involved, such as the hotplug stuff; I do not believe that
> this is strictly required).  I'd use the pppoe daemon from the
> speedbundle.
>
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