On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:19:43PM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> hi all...
> 
> having wrestled with the many and various howtos and faqs for getting the 
> speedtouch adsl modem working with various linux distros i would like to know 
> if i'm going to have similar probs if i go with netbsd and try that.
> 
> the furthest i got with linux was up to the ppp negotiations which didnt work 
> suggesting a problem with my setup of ppp. it seemed odd that i wasnt 
> directing it to a usb port (cf pppd /dev/ttyS0 for a modem).

ha, you have the USB version.

> 
> anyway - enough about my linux woes, any gotchas or 'beware of...' or 'install 
> this first' etc on netbsd, would be much appreciated.
> 
> i really need to get this box up and running for someone as i owe them a big 
> favour and i'm running late!

you want the net/speedtouch package. But beware, this modem is buggy,
there are problems even under windows ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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