On 13 Nov 2009, at 19:02, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > Strangely enough Tom, ADSL hardware that does PPPoA is supported in > 0.7. Really. >
Because PCI ADSL cards do not require any special support for PPPoA as ATM is the transport layer that is dealt with on the hardware of the card. The system just needs to be able to support PPP as it would for a dial-up or PPPoE device. There is no special support or drivers required for PPPoA based modems. As I said there is no such thing as host based PPPoA as oA means ATM and unless you had an ATM card installed in the system and an ADSL modem that had a ATM port on it there is no way you could do PPPoA in software on the host. There has never been any ADSL modem that provides an ATM connector on it. All modems that work with PPPoA do so only on the wan side, the interface to the host is either, Serial or Ethernet. So in terms of how a PCI ADSL Modem card would work is that it will be presented in your hardware profile as either a serial port (usually USB) or as a NIC. Being a designer if ADSL hardware for the UK market I can tell you that 100% Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
