-----Original Message----- From: quintaq@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:quintaq@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:09 PM To: SuSE list Subject: Re: [SLE] Suggestions for ADSL modem
Hi,
Forgive me for butting in on this very technical thread, but it began just as I was starting to consider getting an ADSL connection, and I would be very grateful if anyone can answer the following basic question (in fact I think that Christian Klippel may already have dealt with it, but I want to be sure I understand).
I have a single PC in my home office running SuSE 7.0 and kernel 2.4.0. My ISP is (you will be amazed to hear), totally linux-unfriendly ("we do not support linux or any other Unix"). They offer ADSL using an Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem. I understood Christian to say that USB modems do not work under linux. I made a quick visit to the Alcatel site, however. and got the impression that they say it will work.
I will be very grateful for any advice that will point me in the right direction.
The anouncement was made by Alcatel yesterday that they would be releasing the driver source code for the USB SpeedTouch modem in March. A linux driver should then be ready sometime later. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.