(a)dsl is a very broad spectrum of standards etc..
u have to ask your dsl/telco provider what standard they use/sell you and
then buy your products accordingly..
here in germany there is AVM (avm.de), maybe u know them, they make the
FRITZ type of cards, mainly for ISDN so far, but they also feature a
adsl/isdn combined card for pci for about a year now, and they also have
linux drivers...
then make yourself familiar with all those fancy (a)dsl standards as i said,
get the exact tech details of your dsl/telco provider and google some more
http://www.themad-house.co.uk/Conexant/conexant-specification.html
and for linux they link to:
http://www.digitaltrickery.com/conexant-pci-notes.html
http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/prodpc.htm
linux howto (altho dutch/belgium) for speedtouch:
http://bartendavid.linuxbelgium.net/howto_hardware_speedtouch.html
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87474af6.0210241412.171da6b8%40posting.
google.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
http://www.devolo.de/produkte/adsl/mladslpci/index.php
(this is the old ELSA company, they used to make gfx cards, telco equipment
and so forth, they went bancrupt but a subset of the old staff continued
especially the telco stuff, so they have this adsl modem now, but then
again, maybe this is only for german market, and it could be an AVM oem
product, who knows, you should always ask for mor details if it fits your UK
needs...)
http://www.lioncom.net/itex.htm
http://www.msdist.co.uk/documents/Pulsarspecs.pdf
http://www.avm.de/en/products/FRITZdsl/FRITZ_Card_DSL/FRITZCard_DSL/index.ht
ml
http://www.digitaltrickery.com/conexant-pci-notes.html
http://www.easytel.fi/pdf/300C.pdf
http://www.alloy.com.au/products/ALH110.htm
http://www.eicon.com/support/helpweb/adsl_isdn/install_pci.asp
how about this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000687BD/qid%3D1041891147/026-580
7252-9207643
amazon at your place :)
check out the d-link UK site or somethin...
http://www.dlink.co.uk/long_desc.asp?id=254
(this product is actually eicon for the german market, maybe u simply ask
them and ask for some adsl pci products for the UK market.. i am sure big
companies like eicon and avm can be of better help than searching the web
for info....) or ask your UK telco/dsl provider for recommended products or
some dsl/telco forums in the UK? we have some end-user forums and chats for
the german market, and its pretty informative to check for your daily
dsl/telco troubles and exchange experience there...
try to find out who are the real manufacturers of these products, and who
sells them for their local/OEM market... or read some adsl howto/faqs for
linux and so forth...
maybe some of the UK dsl providers sell some of these AVM/other dsl cards as
OEM ware, rebranded as their own... a big german telco/dsl provider does
that here in germany...
then there is also: www.eicon.com , they also sell a rebranded pci adsl card
here in germany, its similar to AVMs card.. but i dont seem to be able to
find that adsl pci card on their website, but then again you probably check
their UK subsite for best results of products for your UK telco/dsl
standards and so forth...
generally speaking, i would prefer a standard eth/feth/ge nic and an
external adsl modem, with which u communicate thru pppoe or the like...
thats more common if you can do that at your place...
but i guess, there are several manufacturers of pci adsl cards by now, who
also feature linux support and so on... the market looks better as when i
was thinking about either going for AVMs pci adsl solution or for an
external pppoe adsl modem back then. i have chosen the external adsl
solution, because pppoe and ethernet are just two good old standars widely
adopted by now, and the least trouble...
good luck and cheers,
andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Koopman" <djk@tobit.co.uk>
To: <shorewall-users@shorewall.net>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:50 PM
Subject: [Shorewall-users] ADSL PCI cards> Does anyone have any information or recommendations for ADSL PCI Cards
> for Linux boxes? E.g. which ones are supported? How much are they? etc.
> Dirk
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