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[Warren Block]

On Mon, 3 May 2010, osp at aloha.com wrote:

>> Hi, I am having problems connecting to my ISP. I am running a freebsd 
>> 7.2 box using a thompson speedtouch usb modem to connect to an adsl 
>> telephone line. However when I try to make a PPP connection using 
>> pppoa the driver says it cannot find the modem.  The dmesg from the 
>> kernel says the modem is 'cdce0' and 'usb0 is on uhub0'. But 'cdce0' 
>> is not in /dev and when I try to ./MAKEDEV cdce0 I get command not 
>> found. Can anyone help me?

> I expect an ADSL line to go to a "modem" that presents as Ethernet. Connect
> to that with a CAT-5 cable connected to your computer's Ethernet port and
> add configuration settings to your /etc/rc.conf.
>
> If your "thompson speedtouch usb modem" is in fact an ADSL modem then the
> USB end out to present as a network interface. Again, ppp would not be used.

PPPoE, though...  The device to use would be ue0.  Tested with an old 
Ambit cable modem here; it's detected as cdce0 and the ue0 device is 
automatically created.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA