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

[Jon Biddell]

This is exactly correct... The router does all the "dirty work",  
leaving the connection from the PC OS agnostic.

> Christian, did your friend have a router in place between his pc  
> and the SpeedStream modem that SBC (AT&T) supplied him?  I have a  
> dLink DI-604 4 port router in between my pc and the Speedstream,  
> and Ubuntu found it and set up my DSL connection with no problem.   
> I suspect that somehow the modem in between keeps SBC (AT&T) from  
> seeing it as a Linux box.  Hope this helps.
> From: "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> To: "The WFTL LUG" <wftl-lug at salmar.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:13:22 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Wftl-lug] SBC (AT&T) works fine with Linux
>
> 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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