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From: Mateus Denigris 
Subject: Re: DSL service.
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:49:39 GMT
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On 2007-02-14, ray spake thusly:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:24 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:
>
>> In  ray:
>> 
>> [Snip..]
>> 
>>> You could install IE under wine and run that for them
>> 
>> I didn't even have to do that. As others mentioned, it's usually nothing
>> more than a browser-based setup tool that shouldn't care what browser or
>> OS (or link) is involved.
>> 
>> As an example I put my 80+ yearold folks on BellSouth (now ATT) DSL over
>> the summer from Konqueror on the SuSE setup they're running, using their
>> 56K dialup. No problemo...
>> 
>> At that time, I heard of others doing DSL setups from a library or other
>> "public" area using Exploder or whatever the heck browser happened to be
>> immediately available.
>> 
>> If ATT helldesk claims you MUST use M$ and/or Exploder, they're lying or
>> lazy (or both).
>> 
>>> Isn't there an option for doing your own installation?
>> 
>> I made very certain this was the case; IIRC, BellSouth charged extra for
>> having a tech come out to do it. I read over the documentation, fired up
>> Konqueror on 56K dialup, and had DSL service inside 20 or so minutes.
>> 
>>> trivial to do and you should be able to figure it out from what they
>>> show for MS and MAC instructions.
>> 
>> I haven't tried it on *ubuntu, but most recent distros have "wizards" on
>> tap (for me, SuSE's YaST) for exactly this (DSL/cable and DHCP setup).
>> 
>> HTH; YMMV...
>
> Exactly the point. That's how I set up my previous two DSL installs (we
> moved 1000 miles 2.5 years ago). And it was that easy to set up the
> wireless cable modem I'm using now. As a matter of fact, the installation
> guy insisted on doing this one, so I started firefox for him, and he
> easily completed the setup.

Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but it has nothing to do with your browser.
It's all about the internet connection. You establish the connection, then use
it for whatever purpose and with whatever application (including your choice
of browsers) you see fit.  I use the same connection for DILLO browser on
ubuntu as I do for Safari on my Mac.

With DSL, If your distro won't autodetect the ethernet card, load the right
kernel modules, and setup the connection automatically, change to another
distro. Ubuntu is a good choice ;-)

regards,

Mathew
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