[Cialug] What's your modem?

[Rocket Robin Hood]

I thought I bored ye all enough with the details in my post a few days ago, 
but I'll do it again...
I'm in Des Moines and going through Qwest+Qwest.net isp (they have a 'basic' 
plan for like 8$ a month or something). I had the Actiontec 701 modem. I had 
all the lights going properly but nothing in Opera or Firefox. I could 
download email but not upload (attach to my benalto.com smtp server). I 
called Qwest and they suggested I open Netscape, and when I did it worked. 
When I asked why, they asked the general questions (hardware, OS) and when 
they found out I was using Linux they all but hung up on me. I am going to 
try a more linux friendly isp; I actually have been calling InternetSolver 
for awhile and they promise to call me on Monday so we'll see what happens 
there. I don't like how the Actiontec is all configured in the browser; I 
would prefer a modem Yast (I use SuSE) recognizes and then I can configure 
the modem and firewall in there. I obviously am not very clever with 
computers but I like how Linux in general really shows you every little thing 
to configure, even if you don't understand it. 
I have used Linux for about 4 years now and have wrestled with all sorts of 
things - mostly audio/CD stuff - to the point where I use cdrdao and sox on 
the command line like a pro...but this DSL (this next will be the third 
attempt at broadband) is totally eluding me :(

-jason

On Sunday 31 July 2005 14:34, Jon Clemons wrote:
> would bill
> them since they couldn't figure it out themselves:) In every single case
> when
> they switched DSLAM ports it immediately fixed the problem.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocket Robin Hood" <jason at benalto.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 12:06 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] What's your modem?
>
> > Well, something is terribly wrong and I cancelled my DSL and sent back
> > the modem. The mail just wouldn't work no matter what. It had nothing to
> > do with
> > my mail server. I have 3 friends with their own servers and created a
> > dummy
> > benalto.com email account; they could all use pop and smtp. in turn, they
> > gave me email accounts and specifically allowed my IP to access those but
> > I
> > couldn't download any mail from them. I couldn't log into AMSN, Yahoo, or
> > Gaim either. No Opera/Firefox. No telnet out or ssh. Just NETSCAPE.
> >
> > I'm going to try a different isp, and a different modem. I am getting a
> > lot of
> > conflicting advice online. If any of you have DSL, what do you use for a
> > Linux-friendly modem? (ideally, one that is recognized at install...)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > jason
> >
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