[This message has also been posted.] A friend of mine has residential DSL service from SBC. I can move him from MSFT to Debian if I can get his DSL service going.
Apparently he was an early adopter, and let the telco install and configure his service, and it took them nine house calls to get it working on Windoze 98! This is the legacy SBC service, from before they outsourced their residential ISP operation to Yahoo. (Their current service uses a normal Ethernet card and external DSL box, and their outsourced tech support had never heard of this setup.) They installed an unmarked PCI card which reads "Efficient Networks (LANL)" in lspci. It's got one green LED and an RJ11 phone jack. There is no external DSL modem/bridge/router; this thing just hooks up to the phone line upstream of the lowpass filter for the POTS phone. It came with a PPPoE client called "EnterNet" and put some kind of ATM module in the Windoze TCP/IP/PPP stack. Any idea what this thing is? Should it work like the Speedstream 3060 et al? Should it be recognized by some Ethernet driver? Do we have to scrap it and get a normal Ethernet card and external DSL box? That would be bad. TIA. Will post the solution. If you reply off-list, delete the "-du" from my address. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
