On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Kohn Emil Dan wrote: > > Good evening, crowd! > > In december last year, I have subscribed to Actcom's ADSL service and > received from Actcom a free (Apache Micro with Conexant Chipset) USB ADSL > modem. > > Actcom said that there is no Linux support available for this modem. I > searched the internet for some info, but found very little info about > this. > > At first I wanted to change my modem so I can get Linux support, but > shortly after that I thought I might take the challenge to develop a > driver for Linux.
Way to go! > So, I have developed a driver and I wish to release the software under > GPL. The driver is completely in user-space, it does not use at all the > PPPoA support in the kernel, it requires only ordinary PPP support. At > this stage the software quality is pre-alpha. ssh/telnet/ftp connections > work quite OK, however there are some problems during http browsing. On > certain sites, downloading stalls. It seems that this behavior also > depends on the browser used, but I have experienced these problems with > all the browsers I have used (mozilla 0.99, mozilla 1.3, netscape 6.2.3, > galeon, and lynx). I am still investigating this problem. Did you check your MTU/MRU values? try to reduce the MTU for the ppp connection to some low value (e.g. 1000). What problems did you have? Can you make a tcpdump of the session? > I would like to know if there any interest in this software, or if > somebody knows of any support for this modem in Linux, which makes my > software obsolete. > > If there is any interest, I would like to know how exactly I release the > software under GPL. See the section "How to apply these terms to your programs" of the GPL at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#SEC4 Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Duty, n: What one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
