On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >... Paul and Bryan are givin you the best advice. Which is why > I've stayed out of this till now. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
I try not to do this, but "me too". Get an ethernet ADSL router that is firewall configured out of the box, (unless you understand iptables/ipchains.) Apart from putting the ethernet card in the box there is nothing to it, and that is a five minute job, including the hunt for the screwdriver. (Do you have a LUG where you live, I'm sure one of them would be happy to do it for you.) Setting up ethernet is simple, lots of good advice to be had here on the list. OTOH, USB is a can of worms. Setting up ADSL does need some reading to get all the settings right, but with ethernet you have easy + the slightly tricky ADSL stuff. With USB you have tricky/difficult + the slightly tricky ADSL stuff. > The only thing I'd add is, (as root) 'urpmi rp-pppoe' and run > 'tkpppoe' to answer about a half dozen questions. Provider, > userID, password, DNS from server?, stuff like that. Your adsl > connection can then be started with 'adsl-start', and terminated > with 'adsl-stop'. It's easier to enable aDSL service this way, > than under Windoze. That's using a modem, right Tom? I don't need any of that adsl-start stuff. The user-id etc. stuff would be handy though. -- Richard Urwin
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