BSD PPPoA Hardware

[Simon Morgan]

On 8/16/05, Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.org> wrote:
> Seems your need to try is more urgent, so after you try
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html
> it'd be interested to hear if it goes smoothly.

My need for it to work properly is more important though. :)

The fact that the firmware is called mgmt.o would indicate that the
handbook guide refers to the original green "frog" version of the
SpeedTouch. The newer 330 uses a completely different firmware
and I'm unsure whether it's supported properly. Having Googled
for information in the past, my results were far from promising (I
don't think I saw a single report of it working correctly).

The SpeedTouch 330 is the de facto standard ADSL modem in
the UK and so it suprises me that not only is there very little
information about using it under BSD, but that there is also
very little information (almost none that I can find) about any
alternatives.

> I'm not sure about maping this 2 wire 6 pin SpeedTouch 330 plug to
> my DT splitter 8 pin socket. Cant see info in Speedtouch manual, & if
> I wired it straight into wall, It'd cut out the splitter & I'd lose
> my ISDN telephones, + maybe different voltage expectations ?  Don't
> know ? Does anyone else ?

Sorry, bit too low level for me.