On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 8:58 pm, Paolo Bonavoglia wrote: > Does anyone know a working driver for this unfortunate ADSL card? > Obviously I mean a driver which works with Mandrake 9.0 and kernel > 2.4.19.
Many of these ADSL modems are well closed source as another responder says and next to impossible to get working, particularly if you are a 'newbie'. I had an Alcatouch Speedmodem 330 (ugly beetle looking thing) that my ISP gave me when I signed up. Drivers existed for the standard Speedtough that would work with some poking apparently but getting the 330 to work seemed like a MAJOR headache. Often with linux I find it more frustration to be told something MAY work rather than being told it won't because i usually envisage weeks of stress messing aroudn with drivers and kernel patches that usually result in me needing ot reinstall my system again from scratch... Someone gave me their old D-Link DSL-300+g ADSL modem that connects up to the ethernet port managing the whole connection on it's onw which made my life SO much easier I wish to unplug it at night so i can take it ot be with me. Which would sadly mean dropping the connection... unless I got some extension cable... Anyway I reccomend it or something similar. Often in the end it saves a lot of headaches, unless banging away at a peice of uncompatable hardware in the hope of proving the naysayers wrong is your bag :) (It has it's merits, i got my 'paperweight' printer working under linux despite being told it won't work many times) -- PRAEst76
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