[Gllug] Adsl

[Richard Cottrill]

Apparently the firmware has some nasty licensing thing that stops people
from distributing it. Smoothwall has the same issue. Perhaps the 'for cash'
versions of Smoothwall will be different. I doubt the Mandrake distro will
change though.

Richard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Martyn Drake
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Adsl
>
>
> The Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem will work very happily under
> Linux.  The most up-to-date drivers can be found at
> http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net.  However, you will also need to
> download the Speedtouch firmware from Alcatel
> (http://www.alcateldsl.com) which is required by the driver for
> operation.
> Very easy to install under Red Hat 7.2 and full instructions are
> included within the tarball.
>
> In essence all you do is untar the speedtouch drivers into a directory,
> do a ./configure and make install within the directory to install the
> applications.  You then untar the mgmt.o application from the Alcatel
> firmware tarbar and place that somewhere safe.  You then set-up
> /etc/ppp/options, /etc/ppp/peers/adsl, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or
> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and then issue a modem_run -m -f /path/to/mgmt.o,
> pppd call adsl and away you go! :)
>
> As a point of interest to anybody out there using Mandrake 8.1 - this
> distro  automatically includes the open source Linux drivers (but NOT,
> funnily enough, the Alcatel Speedtouch firmware) and will detect your
> Speedtouch modem automatically when setting up the Internet connection.
> Works quite well.
>
> As for AOL ADSL working with Linux - I doubt it.  If it uses the similar
> proprietary network protocols, then I'm afraid you're stuffed.  If
> however, it is purely a TCP/IP based connection then you should be okay.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Martyn
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On Behalf
> Of anwar at druidglade.co.uk
> Sent: 22 December 2001 14:50
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: [Gllug] Adsl
> Importance: High
>
> Hi,
> With Andrew's help, i have red hat up and running at long last :-)))
> I need to know if anyone has any experience that adsl or cable modem's
> would with linux please?
> I am currently with AOL on their ADSL service which uses a USB port.
> Anyone know if i can use this service from within linux please?
>  
> Any help much appreciated
>  
> Darren
>
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