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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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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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