gNewSense speedtouch

**killingspree** · June 11th, 2011

I am looking to move from Ubuntu to a totally free distro, and because gNewSense is based on Debian which I am most familiar with, naturally, that is my first stop.
My question to you is will the following guide work with gNewSense as it does with Ubuntu? Will I need to install any other software beforehand to make it work?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UKSpeedtouchDSLHowTo
Thanks

**boydrice** · June 11th, 2011

Quick caveat I don't use or have this speedtouch modem. That being said it looks like this driver should be included in recent kernels. I would just boot a live gnewsense, Trisquel, or Debian cd and see if a libre kernel has the driver. I would think the driver would be present as it appears to be GPL'd firmware.
speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/index.en.html

**wolfen69** · June 11th, 2011

Debian is totally free, why not use that?

**Georgia boy** · July 10th, 2011

Which would be the easier of the two for installation and use?

**NightwishFan** · July 11th, 2011

Originally Posted by wolfen69

Debian is totally free, why not use that?

This was what I was going to reply until I read down.

You can find Debian downloads here. You only need CD1 of any collection to install.
http://www.debian.org/CD/

Use the link in my signature to find downloads of Debian live dvd/usb. I recommend you start with Gnome as the other desktops (kde, lxde) you need to apt-get install synaptic to have a gui package manager (which is easy).

Debian is the main distribution I recommend to all users. Contrary to rumour it is not hard to use.

More about Debian and Freedom: http://www.debian.org/social_contract