Re: Linux and DSL Support?

Zach Brown (zab@zabbo.net)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:22:20 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Erik Andersen wrote:

> My phone company is about to begin offering ADSL (Asymmetric Digital
> Subscriber Line) service. For about $40 US a month it will provide
> me with a 24-7 connection to the net at 256 Kbps. (Drool, Drool).
> Anyway, to use this new service though will require that I plug in
> an ADSL Modem Adapter (such as http://www.netspeed.com/pcirunner.html).

a few people have been banging on netspeed to get drivers written or docs
released on their pci card, but they have been far from interested. Feel
free to join the fight :)

> Does anybody know anything about DSL, what it would take for Linux to
> support it? Some techinal docs are available at http://www.adsl.com/

I assume you're in uswest land.. we're not sure what all the pci card does
in its firmware.. there might be a bit of software to be written as well
as just getting the bits off the card.

-- zach

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