Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net> writes:

>     "Ric" == Ric Otte <ric@otte.ucsc.edu> writes:
> 
>     Ric> Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and
>     Ric> I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux.  The
>     Ric> woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over,
>     Ric> that it would not work with Linux.  I spoke to her a long
>     Ric> time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't work.  She said
>     Ric> that since they use pppoe and not dhcp, I couldn't get an ip
>     Ric> address with a dhcp client.  But Debian has a pppoe package,
>     Ric> and there are also things like rp-pppoe.  Although she could
>     Ric> not explain to me why it wouldn't work, she was absolutely
>     Ric> positive it wouldn't.
> 
> I use SBC/Yahoo DSL. It works. Just don't ask tech support. I don't
> use PPoE though, I have a wireless AP/hub in between my computers and
> the SBC provided DSL modem that does the PPoE.

Many of those wireless hubs run embedded versions of Linux :) Or so I
have heard.

Just another reason to assume that tech support isn't being entirely
honest.

Bijan