W2k and Intel2100/Cisco605 DSL Drivers

[Greybear 0]

I have noticed several posts here in the past regarding the Cisco 605/Intel 2100 drivers under win2k. We just received word on what the status is.

 

Intel will be releasing the drivers in May and Uswest will be supporting them in end of may/ begining of june. That is *only* for the Intel 2100. Cisco is still undecided on drivers for win2k and is still maintaining the "Dont count on it" stance.

 

Now, to clear some things up. In most of the posts Ive read, its stated that Cisco "sold the 605 to Intel." Thats completely incorrect. USWest was forced to drop the contract with Cisco as Cisco discontinued the production of the 605s. USWest didnt have much of a choice. USWest also doesnt have a choice on whether or not drivers are released for one OS or another. I, Personally, have had people curse me out on the phone when I try to explain to them that not only is WIN2k not supported, neither is Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc, because of lack of drivers, training and a million other factors. Its not like we have they drivers and just arent giving them out. You dont go to compUSA (I wouldnt anyway) and buy a 3com NIC and then scream at CompUSA when the drivers in the box dont arent written for your OS. You scream at 3com. Not to mention that USWest has been very forward from what I can see that while come dsl routers (and they are level 3 routers, not modems.) will work with diffrent OSes, We dont support anything other than win9x and macOS 7.5-9.

 

Now. If you want networking capabilities, you can use the 2100 when the drivers come out but you'll have to use a proxy server and USWest doesnt support that because of the high number of proxy servers available out there. I dont want to have to remember 300 diffrent pices of software either so Im behind USWest on that one. Myself and the other techs on MegaLAN will, however, happily support peer-to peer networking of the 675, and even though we dont support a client/server relationship offically, all 10 techs (myself included) have unoffically helped everyone who calls in with this configuration as much as possible. Even though we might not know the answer, We'll help you with what we *do* know. Any other questions, feel free to ask. I check every once in a while and will respond when I can.

[Flaz 0]

Please let the group know when the drivers are posted.

 

Thanks!