ADSL support ?

[Nick Hibma]

If you have a good pitch you could send it to the Johan Verrept, maybe
he could do with some amunition. Johan.Verrept at alcatel.be. He is
employed by Alcatel and doing his best, so don't bother him with the
question 'when is it going to be available'. Only mail him if you can
help him convince his bosses that releasing an open source driver, and a
binary firmware free of restrictive licenses is good for business.

Any FreeBSD related questions on the SpeedTouch/ADSL should go to 
taavi at uninet.ee, who promised to do the FreeBSD part of it.

Cheers,

Nick


> Is there any way we can help ?  For example can we email somebody at
> Alcatel, telling them that why releasing such things to "open
> source community" is a good thing. Or anything like that ?
> 
> 
> --Alex
> 
> Nick Hibma wrote:
> > 
> > Just verified: The specs seem to be available, but now the haggling is
> > over the firmware (and you guessed it: without that you can't do
> > anything).
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > None so far. My contact at Alcatel did not have any luck in making the
> > > specs and test devices available.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
> > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Aleksandar Simic' wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > During the summer Nick Himba wrote an email addressing the
> > > > progress of support for Alcatel's ADSL USB modem.
> > > >
> > > > I'm very curious about how is that effort progressing. If anybody has
> > > > any news I would be very grateful if they could share it with the group.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --Alex
> 

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