--- Francois Rogler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 05:15:17AM -0800, Adam Nealis wrote: > > --- Patrick Derreal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using the old pppoam on a FreeBSD 4.4 for faour month now, > > > and I never experineced any disconection. But I ' m wondering if using the > > > new version of pppoa2 and pppoa4 would improve the connection ? > > > > Well, it was always possible that my problems were at the exchange. > > Even so, the link would have to be restarted manually somehow. > > > The other possibility was my mobo. > Most times, when there are problems, it comes from the mobo. But you can > spot theses problems easily as you get an error message from the kernel > saying that the usb controler got panic.
And I think this is what I saw. it also makes sense because I seemed to be haviongproblems when other FreeBSD users on the list were not. But I know that sometimes the exchange was at fault. I hope this new machine I am building has a more reliable mobo. > > Have you looked at the pppoa2 port in /urs/ports/net? It seems > > to use the 20011007 snapshot. > This port uses the 20011007 snapshot and add the install of the man pages > that are in linux directory. (that is now include in the Makefile in the > cvs). I don't think they correted the little pb in the script. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Adam Nealis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hi again, > > > > > > > > Having calmed down after my previous post, I wonder what > > > > the current consensus on the stability of pppoa2 or pppoa3 > > > > are under FreeBSD-4.4-RELEASE/STABLE? > pppoa2 is working perfectly. There is just a recent problem that i don't > already know where does it comes from : few people don't manage to > receive data from the modem. > pppoa3 doesn't work at all under FreeBSD, i compile it just for tests. ;) Now I know better than to use it! Thank you Francois, Adam. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
