Suse Linux and GVC ADSL Modem

Mon Jan 17 19:03:48 UTC 2005

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:37:37PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> Adsl Speedtouch modems from Alcatel are supposed to work with usb. the 
> hotplug driver has support for them ? Not tried by myself.

Still requries a driver to be compiled for your kernel and it's not a
standard setup to use it either as far as I can tell.  Some things just
weren't meant to use usb.

The only real reason any ADSL modem uses usb is so that ISP's can have
you plug it in, load the drivers for windows, and get going without
having to ever open the machine to install a NIC or other card.

Lennart Sorensen
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