Chennai is experiencing thundershowers as I type this. There was some pretty awesome thunder and lightning near my home yesterday . Anyway, my USB ADSL modem (the one I have written
so much about) was taken out because of this. After the tech support guy from Airtel replaced the modem with another one and got things working, I wanted to revisit the possibility of using the DSL connection directly from Linux. A Google search confirmed that there
are Linux
drivers available for it (the modem is based on the Conexant AccessRunner chipset).
Long story short (I have to leave for work): need to do a lot make this happen:
- Extract the modem's firmware binary from a Windows file using a utility that is still under beta and which may or may not work.
- Compile the kernel with the modem driver sources.
- Figure out how to set up ADSL in Suse.
Had I still been using Debian, I wouldn't have given a second thought to jumping right in and giving it a go, but after moving to Suse, I no longer have the stomach to roll up my sleeves and start hacking around (and breaking God-knows-what in the process). I have also been spoiled rotten by YaST.
