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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem and FreeBSD
To: simond@irrelevant.org, nomad@netrail.net
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> OK, just letting anyone interested know that Alcatel have just released
> their Linux driver for the USB ADSL "modem", 

Porting this to FreeBSD will be tricky.  It uses a non-open-source
Linux binary (perhaps to load microcode?) which uses Linux's 
usbdevfs, which presumably we don't support in the Linux emulation.

-- Richard

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