From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 6:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7139C37B71B for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA44386; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:28:28 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:28:28 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: nomad@netrail.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010313142828.A44133@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cschreiber@netrail.net on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:57:04AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:57:04AM -0500, Christian S. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings, > I searched the FreeBSD mailing lists for this issue and turned up a > few hits, but no solid answers, so I thought that I would pose the > question here - > > I have an Alcatel SpeedTouch USB DSL modem at home, and wanted to > hook it up to my FreeBSD box. Unfortunately, as I understand it, > there is currently no driver support for this. However, I heard that > the Linux version of the driver may be available soon. I've hit just > about every search engine looking for this, but can't seem to find > any more recent information than around November/December of last > year. If anyone has any information on when this might be available, > I would appreciate it, as right now my Win98 box is my current > firewall for my FreeBSD box(!), which to me is pretty much > sacrilege.. :/ I'm interested in support for this too, but so far the most I've heard is this press release from Alcatel: http://www.alcatel.com/vpr/?body=/latestnews/12022001uk Basically the Linux driver is due out this month and from indications it looks like it'll be a binary image with the firmware on and the rest will be released in source form, it's a case of wait and see currently though :( -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message