> > The hardest part was to locate the developers... Is it sf.net, 
> > eagle-usb.org or gna.org?! (-:   

> In fact we use all : sf for downloads/stats, gna for dev/bugs reports/ML, 
> eagle-usb.org for doc/support

As I didn't know that until now, I was constatly looking for the right
site. So, when I found a link showing to SF I thought it's old, as SF
looks quite abandoned...

> > Biggest problem on eagle-usb.org is that I dont speak French  

> ok I may add and english flag with a link leading to  
> http://wiki.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=HomePage ? 
> do not hesitate to make suggestions for improvement ;-) 

My limited mind was looking for the official page and I expected
something in English. After giving up on it, I tried to read the French
(developer language) version as the true source.

A real improvement would be to cut down the information. Many places
lead to many differnt locations for the same thing. It's very hard to
get an overview. Most things appeared old to me (even if not true),
especially if not including a date.

Multi language websites are hard to maintain, as it's never easy to know
what is up to date, where is an error fixed, which translation got
actually a source (as the translater is adding information...).

I've read the FAQ in the wiki in this direction
French->German->English->Spanish->French. I'm German, living in Madrid.
But the French version seemed most up to date. And how speaks a Spanish
automatically understands 10% French... (-: Especially when knowing from
the translations what to expect.

If I had sticked to just one language, I knew less.

> I've already put the forum in english by default to make it easier for 
> non-french-readers and part of the wiki is already in english, e.g. :  
> http://faq.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=ModemSupport 
>  
> > and the German, English and Spanish pages are mostly 
> > behind - if existing... <-: 

I was talking about the wiki FAQ pages.

> > > I saw it this morning...  
> > ....I thought nobody is interested. Compare the 12 views to the 13 
> > replies(!) of the support question 12h later... [-: 

> You can't expect an answer 2 or 3h or even 12h after posting ;-) as we are 
> doing this on our spare time and the forum is mostly for people having a 
> problem (well my last estimates are 3% based on post per day/driver 
> downloads). 

Everything is fine. (-:  I hoped to get more reaction of other users.
Generelly I don't like forums as they tend to be less developer/
experienced user orientated.
Look e.g. the post last day which got 90 views and 13 answers and boils
down to a usb stupidity...

> > I added some paragraphs (look for "new resulting limits") to my web 
> > page. 
> ok, may I consider your work GPL and put it on our EagleDev ? here : 
> http://dev.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=EncapsulationPPPoA  
> I'll create the page which will be linked to  
> http://dev.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=NetConf (draft) 

I would prefer a link to my site from whereever you want. There I'll
keep it more or less up to date.

> As we are in the middle of release 1.9.9 we may implement it later on in the 
> week, so that it's included in version 2.0. Thanks for tracking down this 
> bug... 

Thanks for the eagle-usb driver! (But I like to get thanks! :-)

> > > What is your ISP? Wanadoo/Eresmas? 
> > It's Jazztel in Madrid/Spain. ADSL 1Mb/320kb. Including flatrate and 
> ok, what are the DNS?

62.14.2.1
62.14.63.145

> > > Have you seen similar reports or problems elsewhere?  
> > I've heard of MTU < 1500 problems elsewhere. As these can be semi-solved 
> > with other methods, I don't know how similar they were.  
> Any URL? That may identify difficulties we have too ;-) (even in Spanish, as 
> I can read it... more difficult with portuguese / Polish / German but google 
> translation is of help) 

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2001/11/cg_pmtu2.html
It's German. But I found most of these problems and solution via google
looking for iptables, NAT, --clamp-mss... and alike. No page had a good
explanation of what is going on in detail, so I read some RFCs, some
code and wrote my own.

> > My first ADSL was 
> > from Arrakis (256k/128k, VPI/VCI 0/35, PPPoA VC-mux, modem: Aztech DSL 
> > 100U, eciadsl linux driver), but I don't have any logs of the PPP 
> > handshake anymore. There where no mtu/mru pppd options, but I used the 
> > link never with a router... 
> so you know FlashTux ;-) It seems strange to me  (at times) that the movement 
> for ADSL USB modems seems to come from France ?! maybe I've not looked 
> suficiently thoroughly... 

I didn't liked the driver. As it had no debian integration yet I like to
get the big picture to help myself setting everything up. But there was
no big picture. Instructions where like "do ./startmodem and if it does
not work run ./doctor-skript". The 4k startmodem was actually two calls:
eci-load1 and eci-load2. The rest was checking and (re)mounting usbfs
somewhere in /proc and stuff like that. Unfortunately it did a bad job
with that on my system!! At _no_ point was note to eci-load[12]. Only
the funky scripts were mentioned and the nifty tcl/tk configuration. - I
don't need that. I need to know who is working with whom. I need to
understand the way the program is working. With that I can help myself
in case of problems.

I don't know the install advices of eagle-usb, but it has a
debian-integration... (-:

For Arrakis: DNS is at 195.5.64.2 and 195.5.64.6


Robert

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