From: Shawn Williamson (swilliam.geo@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 07:02:51 CEST
Bob,
It's an internal pci card: Intel PRO/DSL 2100. Only the phone line
connects to it, not an ethernet line. The computer didn't have an
ethernet card until I installed one to hook up to my mulinux box Samba
server.
I've done a websearch for "intel pro/dsl 2100" and found several people
looking for a driver for it without success. However I did find one page
referencing it, but it requires kernel version 2.2.13 (Site:
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?2229 ). I didn't want
to upgrade the mu kernel.
Plus, my DSL service will be connecting directly to AOL in the next
month (I know, I know, but hey I get it for free from an family member
employed there) so using linux to connect via DSL isn't a viable
solution for me.
THe best solution would be for me to pay money to have a seperate ISP to
dialin via modem with the mulinux box, but the wife says I'm just
"playing around" with linux so I don't need a seperate account. (and
she's right. I'm doing it for the sake of doing it, really).
I thought the tsocks solution would be a good addition to the mulinux
project. When I complied it under slackware, the binary was only 18k.
Bob Romprey wrote:
>
> Could you please give a brief description of your DSL "modem"?
> As most of the devices that are described by users as DSL "modems"
> aren't modems, but rather are ethernet devices(usually an ethernet card installed in the actual client machine, leading to a hub, which then is connected to the phone "DSL" line).
> I've worked with quite a few of these purportedly "windows only" devices only to find out that the only reason they're "windows only",
> is the lack of knowledge, or lack of "official" support for anything other than windows.
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