Just out of curiosity, my dsl uses pppoa and once setup using the setup program which I admitedly had to setup in windows because the web interface isn't lynx accessible, everything works fine. What makes pppoe setups so different. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: re: going dsl > When I had dsl installed and was using it with Linux, I first used Windows > to do the installation. My experience has been that a windows install of > dsl with a Linux switch guarrantees temporary operation of dsl with > subsequent unexplainable mysterious dsl system failures. All of this > usually takes about 3 months to happen. I have been without dsl service > for over 2 months and noone on this end and especially verizon's end has > any clue as to why. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup