On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:18:32AM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael D. Crawford said: > > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. > > > > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that > > required them to run some windows program to authenticate. > > > if thats the case then I reccomend not using such providers. As you will > probably come accross providers that use USB modems which are not > supported, or internal PCI modems.. Qwest for example used to sell an > internal Intel PCI modem for DSL service(it was that or the external > cisco when I ordered), which as far as I know was/is not compadible with > linux(at least at the time).
It wasn't even compatible with Windows 2000 (and Qwest was still providing them after Intel stopped supporting that model)! > > you may be better off just going with a dialup connection or ISDN. At > least with dialup there are several large nation wide ISPs(and world wide) > you can test with, I would expect them to use the same form of authentication > throughout their POPs. > > nate > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
