[Wftl-lug] SBC (AT&T) works fine with Linux

[Christian Einfeldt]

On 3/1/07, Grant Levy <gwhlcmca at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm a newbie, myself.  I just recently installed Ubuntu, and I really like
> it.


Welcome to the Free Open Source Software community.  This list is a good
place to get questions answere.

  I tried several other distros in the past, but had major trouble with
> getting them to work.  Ubuntu just found everthing on my PC, DSL connection
> and all my peripherals.  Everything works.


This is wonderful.  I have had no end of trouble dealing with ATT on bhalf
of other newbies I have been helping.  Of course, it is sort of a case of
the blind leading the blind, because my computer skills are really quite
limited.  I had actually recently been recommending people NOT use ATT or
SBC because they are not Linux-friendly, whereas Comcast just works when you
hook it up to a Linux box.  I must be doing something wrong.  ATT usually
requires that you use their software to hook up, and their software runs
only on Windows, has been my experience.

I have a friend who is a member of this list, and we actually had to switch
distros from SuSE to Ubuntu to SuSE again because he uses ATT, and it was a
complete and total nightmare for him.  We spent days and days struggling
with that problem.  I was worried that he was going to give up on Linux
altogether and go back to a Mac, or worse yet, go with Windows Vista.
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