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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Can you use 2-floppy BL3 on a computer with DSL connection?
  • Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:57:18 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I took along the BL3 floppy disk set to use at someone's house and
> discovered they have a DSL line, meaning I cannot use pppd to dial.
> After booting to BL3, is there some way to access the internet
> via telnet?

How is their DSL modem connected? If it's by USB you need to get a
USB-enabled kernel. If it's ethernet, you need to insmod the modules
for their network card and get that going, then you need to run
netsetup probably and also dhcp.

> I ended up using their Win98 telnet. If a DSL
> connection is always on, could I just boot BL3 then type telnet?

It has to be set up first.

David
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