[Gllug] BT DSL and Alcatel USB

[Robert Wood]

Smoothwall 0.9.9 will be using the benoit driver, (due to alcatel licensing
retrictions) so im waiting out the next 10 days ready to put smoothwall on
my gateway machine then i can finally loose MS off of the gateway.

www.smoothwall.org

Robert Wood [Data Centre Support Technician]
e: robert.wood at interhouse.redbus.com
t: +44 (020) 7531 8700
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a: Redbus Interhouse (UK) Limited
   6 / 7 Harbour Exchange Square
   London, E14 9GE
w: http://www.interhouse.redbus.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Richard Cohen
> Sent: 23 July 2001 12:02
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] BT DSL and Alcatel USB
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
>
> >
> > Robert wrote:
> >
> > RW> See the guide at www.linuxdude.co.uk in the docs section
> > RW> or wait till August 2nd and get smoothwall 0.9.9 and run
> > RW> that on an old 486 and have a nice secure firewall/router
> > RW> with bt adsl-usb support out of the box :)
> >
> > sounds like i found what i wanted :) cheers
>
> NO - DO NOT USE THE ALCATEL DRIVER!
>
> http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index.en.html is where the
> driver you want lives.  It's GPLed, and doesn't require any
> patching, and it
> is (at least) an order of magnitude more stable than the Alcatel
> driver, in
> my experience and the experience of others.
>
> I'll happily talk you through setting it up - just don't use the Alcatel
> driver.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
>
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