Friday, April 18, 2003 @ 11:25:22 AM Central Standard Time c> I want to switch to DSL service, but Qwest here in the Twin Cities only c> 'officially' supports Windows. Does anyone have feedback on DSL Hi. I lived in Los Angeles up until this past February, and had DSL service for a few years their. I currently have RR here in MN. I had the same issue with my ISP. They only supported Windows Sucks, and MAC's. I found that a little funny, cause I noticed most of their services were running on UNIX type equipment. That did not stop me from getting it working on Linux however. I'm not sure about the DSL service here, but my old DSL service used PPPoE to make the connection (with a dynamic IP). After some time I paid a little extra, and was issued a static IP. With a static IP there is no drama...Config your box with the IP info (name server, etc..) they give you, and plug in the modem (provided it is connected to your computer via a ethernet NIC). I have no experience with any other types of DSL modems (USB, or using some other goofy connection). In my opinion, all the modems they hand out that are not connected via a ethernet NIC are junk... Just my opinion.... With the PPPoE connection (dhcp issued IP), I scored a cool little set-of scripts to use (made life real easy) to connect & disconnect the DSL modem via PPPoE. You can download the PPPoE linux stuff here: ftp://b-o-b.homelinux.com/pppoe-1.310.000.zip There are some instruction in their....Read the docs first before you setup anything. If your DSL service does not use PPPoE or they are cool & issue you a static IP, disregard this entire message. Also, here is some more details regarding DSL & Linux http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DSL-HOWTO.html One last thing, I still have the DSL modem (SpeedStream 5260 - ethernet ADSL modem), a couple phone jack adapters, and a hand full of tele filters. I would be willing to trade this for a small hand full of old school 72 pin mem chips (edo) (ideally 6 x 32 Meggers), for a Pent pro box I am currently building. If you are interested, or anyone else out their interested, e-mail me directly, and we can set-up a trade. Rock-On & Take Care, Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars West Longitude 90' 15' 43" http://b-o-b.homelinux.com mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list