[Haifux] Actcom's USB ADSL modem

[Kohn Emil Dan]

Good evening, crowd!

In december last year, I have subscribed to Actcom's ADSL service and
received from Actcom a free (Apache Micro with Conexant Chipset) USB ADSL
modem.

Actcom said that there is no Linux support available for this modem. I
searched the internet for some info, but found very little info about
this.

At first I wanted to change my modem so I can get Linux support, but
shortly after that I thought I might take the challenge to develop a
driver for Linux.

So, I have developed a driver and I wish to release the software under
GPL. The driver is completely in user-space, it does not use at all the
PPPoA support in the kernel, it requires only ordinary PPP support. At
this stage the software quality is pre-alpha. ssh/telnet/ftp connections
work quite OK, however there are some problems during http browsing. On
certain sites, downloading stalls. It seems that this behavior also
depends on the browser used, but I have experienced these problems with
all the browsers I have used (mozilla 0.99, mozilla 1.3, netscape 6.2.3,
galeon, and lynx). I am still investigating this problem.

I would like to know if there any interest in this software, or if
somebody knows of any support for this modem in Linux, which makes my
software obsolete.

If there is any interest, I would like to know how exactly I release the
software under GPL.


                                                Regards,

                                                                Emil


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