From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 4:40:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC1737B423; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: (from richard@localhost) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00225; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:40:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:40:24 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200105031140.MAA00225@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Re: FYI: GPL Linux driver for Alcatel ADSL SpeedTouch USB To: Claude Buisson , Wayne Pascoe In-Reply-To: Claude Buisson's message of Thu, 3 May 2001 13:12:39 +0200 (CEST) Organization: just say no Cc: , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I understand it, there is a small GPLed kernel module, and a binary-only user program that (among other things) loads the firmware. A similar kernel module could be written for FreeBSD. I had thought it might be possible to run the user program under Linux emulation, but it uses the Linux usbdevfs interface which we don't emulate. (Anyone know how hard it would be to emulate it?) I exchanged mail with Johan.Verrept@advalvas.be who I think wrote the code, and he indicated he might be able to help with a FreeBSD version of the program. I haven't had any time to follow this up. I am not at all enthusiastic about such not-really-free software, but in the UK you have no choice about what ADSL modem to use (it's installed by the phone company) and unless you want to pay £100 / month the Alcatel Speedtouch USB is all you can get. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message