Peter Ruskin wrote: >On Tuesday 20 Aug 2002 21:17, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > >>Current ppp package doesn't support pppoatm, which seems to be needed >>for ADSL support. A patch exists >>(http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/atm/pppoatm), but only for previous >>version of ppp. This prevents out-of-the-box ADSL support, which is >>quite sad :-( >>Suse, however, seems to have a 2.4.1 package for ppp including needed >>plugin >>(http://www.suse.com/en/products/suse_linux/i386/packages_personal/ppp. >>html), but i'm unable to find src package to fetch the patch. Who said >>"open source" here ? >>Another solution would be to add another ppp package in contrib >>(ppp-atm, oldppp), conflicting with standard ppp package, at version >>2.4.0, thus providing needed plugin. >>Does anyone else have better idea ? >> >> > >I think you'll find current ppp *does* support PPPoA - that's what I use >with my Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem. See... >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=3CC85C6E.89C9A5ED%40yahoo.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dcoomsie%2Badsl%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26selm%3D3CC85C6E.89C9A5ED%2540yahoo.com%26rnum%3D2 >...for more information - sorry its such a long URL. > >Regards, >Peter > > Hi isnt that just for the alcatel speedtouch usb? i mean the file pppoa3 seems to be in the speedtouch rpm. I too used that for the adsl connectivity when I had an alcatel - but my current ADSL modem a conexant PCI modem seems to also need this patched ppp?
cheers cris
