----- Original Message ----- From: "Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: [speedtouch] PPPoE via USB DSL modems without a NIC] > Hi Peter. > Greetings from Toronto, Cananda. > After reading most of the posts in ( > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02986.html ) the > SpeedTouch mail archive, I now understand why Linux is not gaining much > headway on the desktop. > Have you figured out a "reliable" solution yet? > The fact that a group of students can write their own solution for the alcatel's hardware on the linux kernel simply demonstrates the superiority of an open source os versus some vendor specific stuff, including ms windows. So knowing the competence, the access to the documentation, and the available work time for a group of students, the driver that they delivered is simply *great*. And I'd like to thank them all again ! AFAIK this driver has only a couple of bugs on a particular platform. And I know a plenty of companies, and not among the smallest that simply can't release a performant and reliable driver for their own hardware, on some basic OS like windows. So this driver is "reliable" as far as I am concerned. It's even "easy to install", as far as you can read english or french. >companies like Alcatel and the Linux kernel people must > collaborate so that there is one "best" way to add support for their > products and therefore make Linux look more attractive to Windoze users. The HOW-TOs for this driver are simple, exact and truly of great help. If you follow them step by step you should have your modem working in less then an hour ! Almost less time then to install it on a windows system .... > I also notice that a huge issue is never discussed about PPPoE and USB > DSL modems. This issue is about using PPPoE to connect to the net > without requiring an Ethernet card. > Surely Linux is able to allow me to access the net without having to > install a NIC. After all, Windoze-XP does it quite well with my Alcatel > Speed Touch USB DSL modem. Everywhere I look for info on this relating > to Linux, it says that I need a NIC. > > I say ridiculous! > Yes your writing seem realy ridicoulous ..... > Look at it this way! Bell Canada's Sympatico High Speed DSL service > costs $28 US for unlimited access, and the majority of their customers > all choose the USB non-Ethernet card option. I'd say they have, at least > 2 or 3 million subscribers (and growing). Sure ! I think that this is *exactly* why this driver exist. Beacuse of the popularity of the alcatel's modem ! And because of that and the cheap broadband it gives you, a couple of student started writing their driver for the modem. And it works great ! Is'n it just marvelous ? < . . . > > > Max. > ====== > (IT Consultant - Java, PHP4, J2EE, Delphi, SQL, PostNuke, Phython, Writer) > IT Consultant ? J2EE ? Kidding ? You can't possibly be a consultant on J2EE platforms without having a structured analysis process. And your posting seem to prouve a lot of things that are simply inverse ... Anyway, many thanks and regards to the speedtouch dev team, for their professinalism and kindness ! As the french would say : "total respect & special dedikass" ! Regards, bb Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
