Firmware is required for this device: http://accessrunner.sourceforge.net/ While it is capable of managing/maintaining the ADSL connection without the module loaded, the device will sometimes stop responding after unloading the driver and it is necessary to unplug/remove power to the device to fix this. Detected devices will appear as ATM devices named "cxacru". In /sys/class/atm/ these are directories named cxacruN where N is the device number. A symlink named device points to the USB interface device's directory which contains several sysfs attribute files for retrieving device statistics: * adsl_controller_version * adsl_headend * adsl_headend_environment Information about the remote headend. * downstream_attenuation (dB) * downstream_bits_per_frame * downstream_rate (kbps) * downstream_snr_margin (dB) Downstream stats. * upstream_attenuation (dB) * upstream_bits_per_frame * upstream_rate (kbps) * upstream_snr_margin (dB) * transmitter_power (dBm/Hz) Upstream stats. * downstream_crc_errors * downstream_fec_errors * downstream_hec_errors * upstream_crc_errors * upstream_fec_errors * upstream_hec_errors Error counts. * line_startable Indicates that ADSL support on the device is/can be enabled, see adsl_start. * line_status "initialising" "down" "attempting to activate" "training" "channel analysis" "exchange" "waiting" "up" Changes between "down" and "attempting to activate" if there is no signal. * link_status "not connected" "connected" "lost" * mac_address * modulation "ANSI T1.413" "ITU-T G.992.1 (G.DMT)" "ITU-T G.992.2 (G.LITE)" * startup_attempts Count of total attempts to initialise ADSL. To enable/disable ADSL, the following can be written to the adsl_state file: "start" "stop "restart" (stops, waits 1.5s, then starts) "poll" (used to resume status polling if it was disabled due to failure) Changes in adsl/line state are reported via kernel log messages: [4942145.150704] ATM dev 0: ADSL state: running [4942243.663766] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: down [4942249.665075] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: attempting to activate [4942253.654954] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: training [4942255.666387] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: channel analysis [4942259.656262] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: exchange [2635357.696901] ATM dev 0: ADSL line: up (8128 kb/s down | 832 kb/s up)