On sep 4, 2002, Guillaume wrote :
I myself use the Bewan ADSL PCIst with Mandrake cooker 9.1Le Mercredi 4 Septembre 2002 23:04, Florent BERANGER a �crit :I don't know the exact status of the driver, as there is no license statement first, and as there are two binary files in the tarball, even if they seems not to be used.For info, here a link : http://lea-linux.org/hardware/bewan_pcist.php3
But you have to use a pppoatm-enabled pppd, which is not the case for current cooker ppp package. I submitted a patched version two weeks ago with no response at all. You can find in plf project currently, as pp-2.4.1-6plf.
So I still think Mandrake should include more and simplified support for this device.
Bewan provide complete linux module source
The binary files itselves are the internal modem firmware that is oploaded at load time by the linux module.
This clearly show there should be no kernel tainting there because of this clear distinction between module driver and device firmware.
BTW These sources lack a clear licence. MandrakeSoft should ask Bewan to provide clear conditions on distributing thiese kernel modules sources and compiled binaries.
In France the Bewan ADSL PCIst is a cheap and popular device and it is ART approved (the telecom regulation authority). Furthermore Bewan has proven Linux supportive for a long time with their good products.
About implementation :
About the pppd 2.4.1 from plf it has a annoying bug avoiding it to be able to keep the ATM device open and retry forever to reconnect if the ADSL link drop. It is the case every 24h in France.
So the only good and efficient ATM enabled ppp version I know of is still ppp-2.4.0-2 from here : <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23818&release_id=29393>
the speedtouch projet at sourceforge
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/speedtch/>
Se also this link : <http://www.da-silva.nom.fr/linux/adsl/pppoatm/>
Even if MandrakeSoft can't get clear status for the module driver sources they at list should include a working ATM enabled ppp and all necessary ATM support in the distro :
A ppp over ATM enabled draknet and drakconf would add valuable help for newbe to use this ADSL modem.
regards
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