From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZaRC-0003Sk-Bi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:09:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D5DBE03A3; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65EEE03A3 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so5333413gxk.10 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:09:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CUi7fQ4o8lTMHd0VBzun47RG6hk46N5ehTQ0htlOp1Q=; b=uVcTnHqMo/AtJ4YevPwH78F2o1BtIYmRue+s5jiBqZ5MoD/NK6yB7VeTyuJSDZjYLt SrSnGTiahznFX0KtXr92nUw3C+T4rJnou2vKq7rHawBeJaf2hfOfXh4SJcEOiYg6tP19 /In0WKMQ7vQVK0XSwQuFsC2W3mvlycYvcXUiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FKfk23abTPVcbJbOWgUeW0SfGJsWCl998sAvgdLCuY7Eyf0L1JKHAQkrARtZBSgU3B uqHlIszxif+ZxbHYjpTRpqYDC4o5IuCbvAN1fJkurQYHjQHg+U9/X6mzXHcRnI6KL5rW R3itIqc5u/nuvS+vMFWajZaspsbgYnCXoxqDY= Received: by 10.90.69.13 with SMTP id r13mr1449314aga.53.1249693772594; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.163.167? (r163h167.dixie-net.com [64.89.163.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 29sm4632542agd.15.2009.08.07.18.09.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A7CD047.2040004@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:09:27 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time. References: <4A7CBC95.9030008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: db67c1ff-f45f-4ff7-9d9e-d270168c753c X-Archives-Hash: 704ee25a8aeba025a2a71fb88eebe008 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 02:45 AM, Dale wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that >> I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and >> set it up that way? > > If your "modem" is connect by Ethernet, then it's probably a > router/modem/switch combo device. Those don't even need drivers. You > just go to its IP and configure it there and Linux will get internet > access through Ethernet. > > If it's a USB-only device, then it's a simple modem and you will have > to pray there are Linux drivers for it. > > I was told it would be a ethernet modem so sounds like I will be good to go without to much trouble. I messed with one of these things a long time ago but I couldn't remember what I had to do to set it up. I also figured things may have changed since then too. It was several years ago. Thanks for the info. I guess I don't need rp-pppoe for this to work. Dale :-) :-)