10/15 How does DSL work? Is it an internal PCI card? Or it connects through
the parallel port? I'm asking because I'd like to install Linux and
have DSL connectivity, but I have no idea how DSL<->Linux interact.
\_ You get an ADSL modem. It plugs into the phone network.
Your computer plugs into the modem using ethernet. So you need:
1) ADSL modem, 2) ethernet card 3) short ethernet cable.
PacBell will give you all 3. --PeterM
\_ I'm sure Microsoft is going to eventually lobby lawmakers
to ban the ethernet DSL interface forcing people to use
special WinDSL modems. Afterall, they did lobby congress
to cut DOJ funding. I'm sure they'll do anything to make
sure that non-MS operating systems can't use DSL.
\_ ride MSBike 2000! (Y2K compliance built-in)
\_ the dsl comes in to a router. you plug whatever the hell you
want to plug into it via ethernet.
\_ I'm assuming you mean ADSL for your home. You must have a NIC
(any old NIC). Let's assume that they give you a static IP. In
that case you boot up your Windoze computer, set the NIC's IP,
subnet mask, DNS entries, then add the gateway IP that the ISP
tells you. Then you take a UTP cable, plug one end into the
wall, the other end into the modem. Take another UTP cable, plug
one end into the modem, the other end into the NIC. Then you're
all set. You can even move the NIC end of the cable to
different computers without reboots if they all have their NIC's
configured. Now let's assume that they give you a dynamic IP.
In that case, you tell your NIC to "Obtain an IP address
automatically" and everything else is the same. That's how you
do it in Windoze.
\_ when the wiring service comes by they'll install a splitter
box to your phone line, run cable, and put the RJ-45 jack
where you want it
\_ So does DSL replace your phone bill, like ISDN? |
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