From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 20 6:11:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from valu.uninet.ee (valu.uninet.ee [194.204.34.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B7E37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by valu.uninet.ee (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B25073640D; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:11:19 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by valu.uninet.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE9F3260D; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:11:19 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:11:19 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik To: Richard Cotrina Cc: Thierry Herbelot , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: USB ADSL modems ? In-Reply-To: <00d701c052fa$403439c0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Richard Cotrina wrote: > Currently, I am using an Alcatel ADSL USB Modem (Speed Touch USB) in a > windoze box (only works with win98) configured for a PPPoA connection. > ugen0: ALCATEL Speed Touch USB , rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 > So, it the kernel could recognize it, but I don't know how to make it works. Speed Touch requires special driver to do AAL5 encapsulation and to download SpeedTouch firmware. However, until Alcatel releases specifications and firmware under some usable licence, writing such driver is impossible. There are promises, that after completeing Linux driver (http://kapu.name.daemon.xs4all.be:8080/Projects/), these will made avalible. Just now, we can only wait. best regards, taavi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message