[Soekris] Traverse Technologies Viking PCI ADSL2+ Card

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2008-06-26, Adam Retter <adam.retter at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I had a Traverse Pulsar ADSL PCI card in a net4801 with the standard
> Soekris net4801 case and the fit was fine.

The standard net5501 case is, ermm, rather more roomy, though
it's 5mm or so too short to fit the fairly common "half-length"
format (~175mm) cards.

>                                            The problem I had was that
> Traverse whilst claiming to support FreeBSD/OpenBSD originally were
> never able to produce working/stable drivers. I did interact with
> their tech support department for some time and they did try and
> resolve the issues but the drivers had been written by a contractor
> and we never managed to get a working/stable driver.
>
> I see they are only offering Windows/Linux drivers for the Viking and
> so maybe you will have more luck with that...

This newer card appears to just be a standard ADSL router chip
glued onto a PCI ethernet card, configured by web interface.

The main possible problem area is with phy drivers but it will
probably work ok. Would be nice to see a dmesg and know for
sure, though...