I was overjoyed when this chipset was supported in 3.8. At last, I
thought, consumer level DSL equipment which will show up as an interface
instead of some dodgy ppp tun0 nonsense.
Imagine my disappointment then when it failed miserably to work. It
never has, I've tried no end of variations of hardware and nothing. I
suspect it's broken in a way which doesn't work on the British telephone
network.
The maintainer's page was abandoned before his driver even made it into
the kernel. Since then his forum has been filled up with people trying
to figure out why it won't work and, more recently, spam.
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ueagle/
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ueagle/forum/list.php?f=3
Today I went and had a look again in the vain hope that he might have
miraculously appeared again. Instead, he's changed the background to a
repeating image which simply says "Discontinued". Never a truer word has
been spoken.
So then, my obsd sweethearts, do you ever drop support for vapourware
drivers or will this be forever immortalized in your CVS repository
(neatly avoided the temptation to put suppository).
Your faithful servant,
Will
