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@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net Since infosec wasn't that much in the news yet, I eventually got a copy of the exact Redhat release the drivers were for and put that in an old PC. It served quite long as a router/firewall, but it was also a good example of "Linux support" of the era. I recall other devices too with similar support model and people hacking the compiled kernel modules to run on other distro kernels. From what I understand, the drivers were made under a license that prevented the source to be released. I suspect the device itself was pretty braindead and the driver was doing the heavy lifting like in those 56k WinModems too. I wised up from the ordeal and bought stand-alone ADSL bridges from that point on.