Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a new ADSL USB modem. I have a fully functional Allied Data Copperjet 800 USB modem which unfortunately can not be used because there are no linux drivers available for it. There is a static ip driver on sourceforge but that is of no use to me since I have a dynamic IP account with my ISP. I bought the copperjet 800 because it had the Tux logo on the box. Inside the box there were no Linux drivers and on the Allied Data website they posted that the linux drivers would be available within 6 months. After 2 years of waiting, several unawnsered E-mails and using a Windows machine as a gateway, it is time to face the fact that this company will never create Linux drivers for this ADSL modem (may they burn in hell).

What would be a decent low-budget ADSL USB modem (that works in Belgium) which is guaranteed to work in Linux on a recent kernel (2.6.10)?

thank you for your advice,


Steven

Is there any reason for getting a USB ADSL modem ?

I have found that most, if not all, Ethernet ADSL modems work very well. This is because there is no need for drivers, you just plug it in to the ethernet slot in your computer and you should be ready to go.

I hope this helps
--Ian

2 years ago an ethernet ADSL modem costed about the double of an USB version. I admit that I don't know if the price difference is still that big nowadays.

I also have a question about an ethernet ADSL modem. Does my computer have it's own IP adress directly from the ISP or does it get a local IP adress by DHCP from the modem? It's absolutely vital that my Linux station is connected directly to the internet.

hi guys,
I am using ixp4xx board and connecting adsl usb modem to it.. using redboot to load the kernel image...and i am using snapgear kernel...... but its giving the following error on executing the kernel:

....<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
pgd = c0004000
[00000018] *pgd=00000000, *pmd = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 7
CPU: 0
pc : [<c007797c>] lr : [<c006c7e0>] Not tainted
sp : c36add60 ip : a0000013 fp : 0000018a
r10: 00000030 r9 : 00000c80 r8 : c01f2450
r7 : c0256db0 r6 : c0ff11e0 r5 : c0256db0 r4 : 00000000
r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000030 r0 : c0256db0
Flags: nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment kernel
Control: 39FF Table: 00008000 DAC: 0000001D
Process CmdRD (pid: 16, stack limit = 0xc36ac368)
Stack: (0xc36add60 to 0xc36ae000)

what feature i am missing to select while kernel compilation?? do i need to set config_ppp ??

plz help..