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Re:Osmocom icE1usb: Open hardware USB E1/T1 adapter by stas2k on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:42AM (#25557698)
I saw them do A5/1 live cracking on stage in Netherlands. It is amazing what you can do with sheer determination. Learned a lot from their talks on GSM.

USB E1 is holy grail when it comes to E1 interfaces. Before that meant a PCI card, which excluded all laptops and SBCs. And it usually required some pretty specific kernels and modules to be installed.

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Re:Osmocom icE1usb: Open hardware USB E1/T1 adapter by mschuster91 on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:47AM (#25558203)
> which excluded all laptops

There exist Thunderbolt 2 and 3 PCI breakout boxes. Usually they're used for eGPU setups, but they work with pretty much anything.

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