[Wolves] ADSL or cable broadband?

[Ade Bradshaw]

Yeah, Im with blueyonder and I have no complaints - as you say, just 
plug in ya cat 5 and away ya go

Matthew Revell wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>--
>>Trog Woolley  |  trog at trog hyphen oz dot demon dot co dot uk
>>(A Croweater back residing in Pommie Land with Linux)
>>Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna
>>
>>
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