On Tuesday 09 April 2002 14:13, Derek Fountain wrote: Hi,
Oh yes there are.... http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net
Yes. Took less than an hour on SuSE 7.2 with the how-to and drivers from above URL.
I looked at that lot on behalf of a friend. It made seriously horrible reading - I'm suprised you got it together so quickly.
Well in 7.2+ 2/3rds of the how-to is already done, so no patching and recompiling of the kernel is needed. It was litually just installing the driver and making a few minor changes in a couple of scripts.
Fortunately - or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint - the driver doesn't work on SMP machines, and as that's all he has,
Thats a USB issue AFAIK, USB does not 'wok right' with Windows either. USB2 was meant to address that, but has introduced a number of security issues.
I didn't actually have to bother. He uses it from Windows, which would worry me if it was mine, but it ain't, so it don't. ;o)
I had it running under Windows for the best part of a year, and I averaged 3-4 days uptime, under Linux I am managing about 25-30 days. It also seams faster, but I am not sure what utility I should use for measuring my connection speed. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 10:59pm up 9:24, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.26, 0.11