USB modem for firewall

[bradh at cuneata.net]

Quoting James McNeill <james at heague.com.au>:
> IPcop has support for some alcatel USB modems, but this one's a
> Dynalink
> ALE070 (GlobeSpan chipset i think). Google has shaken her head
> doubtfully at
> me thus far.
It really helps if you can post the descriptors from /proc/bus/usb/devices. 
Lots of people OEM these things, and product names are pretty irrelevant, and 
sometimes misleading.
 
> Has anyone ever tried to pull off something like this using WINE, or
> even
> bochs or WMware?
Do you really want to run those on your firewall?

Also, does the modem have an ethernet connection?

Brad