[Scottish] Good Live Disk for ...

[William Anderson]

Colin McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 05 February 2005 20:37, William Anderson wrote:
> 
>>Colin McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>erk. Not a USB one? (they don't even work very well with MS-Windows). It
>>>is possible to get them to work with Linux but last time I looked it
>>>seemed a bit of a struggle. IIRC SuSE is better than some in this dept,
>>>but a ethernet connected device will save a lot of pain.
>>
>>IIRC the Intel USB stuff never did get open sourced and Intel didn't
>>release binary-only drivers nVidia-stylee.  Shame.
> 
> ....but allegedly it's possible to get the alcatel ones which used to be 
> "popular" working with Linux. Just not very easy and requires a bit of 
> guessing and experimentation.

You mean the Speedtouchen?  All three Speedtouch USB models - the green
frog/stingray, the purple 330 and the silver 330 - are supported very well
under Linux, and have been for years.  I don't think it's unreasonable to
say a lot of the success garnered by SmoothWall was on the back of
Speedtouch frog support after ADSL got more widespread in 2001.

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