Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-15 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/8/15, Will Hoskins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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/

Re: [unclassified] Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-15 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Craig Skinner wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:48:55PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: PPPoA is in some ways, preferable, since you don't have the MTU issue of PPPoE. Much better. It is helpful to include such details ;) I didn't think it was important, since I wasn't asking for help. I'm

uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Will Hoskins
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

Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Will Hoskins wrote: 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. So then, my obsd sweethearts, do you ever drop support for vapourware drivers or will this

Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Chris Zakelj
Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: Will Hoskins wrote: 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. So then, my obsd sweethearts, do you ever drop support for

Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Chris Zakelj wrote: Why not just a plain old DSL/10BaseT bridge and pppoe(8)? I agree that it'd be great to have hardware plugged comfortably inside the system and one less piece hanging off the power strip, but canacar@ and crew have done an incredible job on it, to the point where even my old

Re: [unclassified] Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Chris Zakelj
Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: Chris Zakelj wrote: Why not just a plain old DSL/10BaseT bridge and pppoe(8)? I agree that it'd be great to have hardware plugged comfortably inside the system and one less piece hanging off the power strip, but canacar@ and crew have done an incredible job on it,

Re: [unclassified] Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:48:55 -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: Chris Zakelj wrote: Why not just a plain old DSL/10BaseT bridge and pppoe(8)? I agree that it'd be great to have hardware plugged comfortably inside the system and one less piece hanging off the power strip,

Re: [unclassified] Re: uEagle DSL chipset

2006-08-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:48:55PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: PPPoA is in some ways, preferable, since you don't have the MTU issue of PPPoE. Much better. It is helpful to include such details ;) At the office where I worked roughly three years ago, we had a setup where the external