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2026-05-28 12:32 UTC

@apz@some.apz.fi I remember this! In a houseshare in around 2001 we built a little Linux router and we had a USB ADSL modem (for our 512k line!) and it was one of those things where once we had it working, we didn't touch it again for the year we were there

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@apz@some.apz.fi 2026-05-29 15:16

@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.

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