Post #2948733
2026-05-28 12:18 UTC
A memory of the Linux days long gone.
I bought an ADSL modem that was a PCI card. Linux support was promised on the package.
The "Linux support" arrived in a .zip package. It had a Word document as instructions. At that point I had a bad feeling about it and I was right. They offered a precompiled kernel module for some ancient Redhat release. That's it.
I've since seen bad attempts at Linux support, but that modem still tops them all.
#linux #retrotech
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@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net 2026-05-28 12:32
@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