🚀 go-pugleaf

unfortunately I do believe you will have to get  an ethernet modem
no choice here, the modem that BS supports and provides is the
Alcatel Speed Touch  Home   The unfortunate part is that BS only
gives these modems out on Pro-installs.  THEY DO NOT SHIP
ETHERNET MODEMS period no exceptions....  It can also be a frustrating
experience just getting bell south to ship a different modem...   The reason
that
you will have to go with the ethernet modem is that the only software
bellsouth has for
linux is NTS Ethernet 300 a third party dialer... so you can authenticate
one way with
ethernet 300 download it from ftp.bellsouth.net.. call the help desk
at 888-321-2375 or it might be 877 I forget option 2 to get the password to
DOWNLOAD the SOFTWARE...
 or you might say for the SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD.  Since a pro install costs $150
if it were me
I would buy a modem off the internet for cheaper if i could find it. Bell
south does not want you to do that of course and they will not support a
modem bought elsewere but then that's not a big deal since we don't support
linux anyway
Be careful of one thing if you do buy a modem on your own since modems that
are like the Alcatel 1000 and
the alcatel speed touch home (the 2 modems supported by BS)  are hard coded
no drivers to load you must be
carefull that  the vpi vci for bellsouth is set to 8:35  many isp's use 0:35
and there for many modems are set
to this.... of you have any other questions about using bellsouth dsl post
them i'll  answer them a better place to post for dsl specific q's is the
tech support news group fr bell south that you can get to on your bell south
news server...
side note:
no difference exsists AT ALL  between pppoe and pppoa on the host side....
the only difference is in the manner inwhich
a node authenticates-- ppoe=thernet300 .... pppoa=Dial up Networking or RAS
dialer or I forget what the mac dialer is
called..... any linux customer is going to be pppoe it does not matter what
it sys you are in the bell south data base


gosh




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> Help!!!
>
> We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get it
> connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a "time-out"
> message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command can
we
> use to see the list of IRQs?
>
>
> meesh32
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