[tech] ADSL/USB linux support

[Balmik Soin]

morning ppl...

happy australia day btw...
(gotta rememerb to ring my bro!)
anyway, quick question...

lcoal telco is offering dirt cheap fast net access... but the catch is
they provide a adsl modem that connects to a USB port on your computer,
and so they state that it will only work with windows 98... NOT 95, or NT
or on a mac...

now of course i want to use a *nix box to dialin (as i am actually
planning to use it as backup bandwidth at work) and so i was wondering if
anyone could point me in the right direction to find out if this is
possible... or if they could tell me it isnt...

i have this fear the adsl modems they sell are the winmodems of the dsl
world, as they only cost $140, and they say only work on windows 98...

lacking in sleep once again,
balmik.

ps. anyone remember "Tang", the drink flavour stuff ? i found it last
night, that made my day :)