Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?
* Ric Otte (ric@otte.ucsc.edu) [030621 16:39]:
> Hi,
>
> I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them
> up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support
> confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with
> Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't
> work. She said that since they use pppoe and not dhcp, I couldn't get
> an ip address with a dhcp client. But Debian has a pppoe package, and
> there are also things like rp-pppoe. Although she could not explain to
> me why it wouldn't work, she was absolutely positive it wouldn't.
I'm confident that SBC DSL will work just fine. What the support woman
is "confident" about is that SBC doesn't support Linux, therefore, in
their eyes, "it won't work" and they won't help you try and get it
working.
Check the website http://www.dslreports.com/ for help.
Regards
Hall
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