On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:24:05 +0100 Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
Update: I've just used these drivers with a Dabs Value PCI ADSL modem in a Debian Woody box successfully. Main hassle was getting a version of pppd that supports PPPoATM, but aside from that it wasn't too bad.
I also have the Dabs Value PCI ADSL modem working. My kernel version is 2.4.20 and I didn't need to apply any kernel patches at all. The Debian atm-tools package supplies the necessary libatm.so.
For me the two points of slight difficulty were:
1. The Debian ppp package doesn't support PPPoA. I was able to find a patch against the version of pppd used in Debian so I downloaded the Debian source, patched it, and build it into a binary package which I could install in place of the normal Debian one. It is working fine with both PPPoA for ADSL and standard dialup.
2. For some reason building the kernel pppoatm driver as a module didn't work because modprobe couldn't find the pppoatm_ioctl_hook symbol. I posted a separate message about this on 5th April. This is not a showstopper though as it works correctly with ATM support including PPPoA compiled into the kernel.
Steve.
Steve Fosdick lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk wrote:
Debian source, patched it, and build it into a binary package which I could install in place of the normal Debian one. It is working fine with both PPPoA for ADSL and standard dialup.
Remember to mark the package as "hold" if you use apt-get at all. You can do this through one of the front-ends (not sure whether dselect can, though), or I think it's echo "pppd hold" | dpkg --set-selections if you feel like brute force. You should check the fine manual before believing me, though.
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I posted a separate message about this on 5th April. This is not a showstopper though as it works correctly with ATM support including PPPoA compiled into the kernel.
Actually, I remember someone complaining on another IRC channel about this problem, but I don't remember if there was another solution. Such is the trouble with IRC for technical questions.
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