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Article #283Re: ADSL & Linux
From: Robin Gilks
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:00
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:00
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Martin Liddle wrote: > In article <999251274.19179.0.nnrp-10.c29fde5a@news.demon.co.uk>, Stu > Carter <stu@mini.demon.co.uk> writes >>Does anyone here have experience of using Demon/BT's ADSL >>modem on a Linux box? >> >>I currently have a Linux router connected to a 56k modem, but >>would like a permanent connection which doesn't hog a phone line. >> >>I thought that ADSL would be my best bet (don't trust those cable >>companies one inch), but Demon's site says that one needs Windows >>to use their modem. >> >>A quick web search turned up that the makers of the BT ADSL >>modem may release open-source drivers for Linux. >> >>Anyone know if this has happened? Anyone using it in real life >>right now? >> > Yes it happened and I am aware of lots of people using them: > unfortunately I have no personal experience with them. I have taken the > liberty of cross posting this reply to uk.comp.os.linux where the > experts live. Does this refer to just the USB modem or are there any issues with the 10M Ethernet version (which I'm about to get ready for when I work from home again). Most interested in this before I plunge in and drop the ISDN line. -- Robin Internet: g8ecj@abmdata.demon.co.uk http://www.gb7ipd.freeserve.co.uk/ Anorak mode = Shack: (+44) 1628 533311 Fax: (+44) 1628 850165 Club pages (g4xyw modem etc) at http://www.tvipug.org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,746c97f24f2f3f28 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fac57,746c97f24f2f3f28 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 16:43:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!abmdata.demon.co.uk!news.freeserve.net!nobody From: Robin Gilks <g8ecj@gb7ipd.ampr.org> Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix,uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: ADSL & Linux Followup-To: uk.comp.os.linux Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:00:37 +0100 Organization: Amateur Radio Message-ID: <dv4pm9.7ft.ln@news.freeserve.net> References: <999251274.19179.0.nnrp-10.c29fde5a@news.demon.co.uk> <OsRxF6COb3j7Ewf9@tcs02.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: g8ecj@gb7ipd.ampr.org NNTP-Posting-Host: abmdata.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: abmdata.demon.co.uk:158.152.250.37 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 999301328 nnrp-13:22013 NO-IDENT abmdata.demon.co.uk:158.152.250.37 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net User-Agent: KNode/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Lines: 36