[plug] dLink DSL-200 USB ADSL modems

[Leon Brooks]

This page says that they work:

    http://eciadsl.sourceforge.net/redir.php?page=modems&type=html

The HOWTO is, unfortunately, in French, preformatted, and Google turns it all 
into one huge line when it translates; however there is now a slightly less 
unreadable copy of the translated page here (read it alongside the Frnech 
original for best value):

    http://leon.brooks.fdns.net/translated_dlink200.html

You have to compile a kernel module (not a whole kernel) for the modem, and if 
you want pppd's persist option to work you either have to use 2.4.18-or-later 
or recompile (the whole kernel) with a patch from the speedtouch (Alcatel) 
driver site. A bit much for a clueless user, but not too hard for a denizen 
of this list.

Cheers; Leon


PS, if iiNet are trying to talk you into spending $1100 on a Cisco router so 
that they can route stuff to you over ADSL (a task which they have been doing 
successfully for a long time with Linux and their standard ADSL modem, but 
which policy now forbids them to do despite Telstra's forced opening up of 
their DSL system innards), there is a $660 version of the $560 ADSL router 
which Optus normally supply with their ADSL service which iiNet have agreed 
will do the job - you just have to configure it yourself. Apparently the $560 
version only talks to Lucent DSLAMs, and Telstra don't use Lucent (I'm 
guessing they use Cisco, does anyone know for sure?).