On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 12:52 PM, Ronald Broadwater wrote: > Bellsouth DSL is not supported in OS X. > > 1. You have to boot from an earlier system, such as OS 9!! > 2. Insert the Installation Wizard that Bellsouth supplies. > > > It is that easy. ?In order to use the internet though, I have to start > up from the older system. ?I have not been able to start from OS X, > then bring on Classic, then access the internet.
I've not used BS DSL, but, unless they're doing something really stupid like a USB-based DSL modem or proprietary PPPoE, it shouldn't be very hard to get it working under OS X. (Even with ordinary PPPoE, it should work.) This was the same story when cable connections started rolling out. It turned out that there really wasn't a problem, just a lack of knowledge on the part of the cable company. Here's what I'd try--assuming a TCP/IP connection to the DSL modem. Get it working under 9 and then open up the TCP/IP control panel to copy all the numbers you see there for the Ethernet connection. Then restart to X. Bring up the Network panel under System Preferences and fill in everything the same way under the TCP/IP tab. Does this fail? The one klunker that could get in the way is DHCP authentication. I don't know how BS does it. If somebody with this problem lives reasonably close to me, I'd be interested in coming over and trying to get it working under X, just to see what BS is doing. --- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502.852.6826 FAX: 502.852.7132 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be June 25. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
