[ILUG] ESAT's DSL modem

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Niall O Broin wrote:

>On Saturday 29 May 2004, jimregan at o2.ie (Jimmy O'Regan) wrote:
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>>>I've signed up for the free trial and I'm wonder do you have to do
>>>anything special Linux-wise to get the modem to work? I'm running Red Hat 9
>>>with kernel 2.4.20. I've got a creakingingly old Dell laptop here, and the
>>>USB works grand. I don't want to have to spend a few of my free 90 days
>>>trying to get my modem to work. Has anyone had any trouble?
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>>I'm using the Ethernet connection, but basically all that was involved 
>>was installing pppoe.
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>So if you use the Ethernet bit of that modem, all it does is bridge? The modem
>itself doesn't then do PPPoE ?
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No, the modem doesn't do PPPoE.