On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 at 14:50 -0400, Glen Wagley wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 at 11:43 -0600, Hans Fugal scribbled: > >My actiontec (the wireless one that qwest rents these days) hasn't > >needed attention for a couple of months. I don't know if it's just luck, > >or if it has to do with my doing pppoe in linux and not on the modem. > >(your ISP needs to support this - you _are_ using xmission right?) > > > Doh! I'm using CSolutions actually. I believe they use PPPoA (someone correct > me > if I'm wrong). The router I have (a ghetto SMC barricade) only handles PPPoE > so > I had to setup the Actiontec to be a bridge only.
So you're saying the Actiontec is just doing bridging and isn't doing PPPo[AE]? In that case, my suggestion is moot. > What is the trick to > getting Qwest to send a replacement? Locking up a few times a week doesn't > seem to be a big deal to them... Well in my case the modem went out to lunch permanently. Completely fried. I called up, jumped through their hoops until they were satisfied that the modem was hosed, and then we did the RMA thing. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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