[tech] ADSL/USB linux support

Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jan 26 11:19:47 WST 2000


> On Jan 26, Balmik Soin scrawled :

> 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...

Run a development Linux kernel (2.3.40 is the latest) and it has USB 
support. Check Alan Cox's website (linux.org.uk) to find out if it supports 
the adsl modem :)

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

It sounds bad, anyway :)

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