new Re: [Gllug] ADSL modems

[Richard Cohen]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:

> I've worked with several diferent xDSLs and I've never used any drivers
> for them, all I did was ifconfig ethx IP and it works fine. Please can you
> explain what these drivers are for?

The 'cheap' ADSL option in the UK involves using a dedicated ADSL 'modem',
which plugs into the PC over USB.  As this is far from a standard
configuration, it needs special drivers - there are free beer drivers
available from the manufacturer (Alcatel), and free speech drivers
available from a French bloke called Benoit, who wrote them by sniffing the
USB comms on a Windows box.  The Benoit driver is far better and easier to
use than the Alcatel driver, but neither driver is trivial to install and
configure.

> thanks in advance.
>
>
> 	   Ivan Dimitrov

Cheers
Richard


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