On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully by then I will be connected. Since no one else has responded
> > yet, seems I may be at the frontier's edge on this. I am expecting
> > installation a week from monday. This is all new to my ISP as well. I am
> > their "test case", primarily because I have been bugging them to get it
> > up for months. I may be wrong, but I think the major primary players in
> > my area (the phone companies themselves- Bell South and Sprint) won't
> > hook up ADSL to a linux box, in some areas they are not even authorizing
> > mac boxes yet. I will certainly keep folks posted on experiences.
> > Meanwhile if anyone has done this yet I would love to hear from you.
> > Thanks.
> >
> Eric...just set up a Windows box for 'em...then, make a
> note of the DNS servers and the name they gave your machine
> and plug that info into your Linux box along with the
> network card that they used in the setup. :-)
> My friend here did that. He's got DSL from Bellsouth and
> they plugged into a Windows box....:-)
> John
While this is fine if you have a box to destroy, I mean put windows on.
I'm sure they have a tech that can verify the ethernet connection with a
laptop. Setting up the network card is truly trivial, no matter what OS
good ones don't even require a reboot. Do you already have a home network,
or ethernet card?
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