hello to all,
I used previously eagle-usb and now changed to ueagle-atm. Since, thanks to you all guys, I've been able to connect to the internet on linux for quite some time now I felt like giving some feedback on my use of your drivers.
My PC linux crashed one month ago just after I decided to try a Suse 10.0 distribution. I previously used a Red Hat 9.0 then the Fedora distribution up to the Core 4. I use linux as a NAT / Firewall machine for my local network and want to avoid as much as possible to have my Windows machine directly exposed to the internet. Thus after the crash I decided to buy some new equipments:
* Ahtlon 64 3000+
* ASUS K8N motherboard.
I wanted an up to date but still rather cheap hardware (not buying a Sempron or a Celeron though). I knew linux now support x86_64 arch and this oriented my choice towards AMD versus Intel this time. I downloaded the Suse 10.0 evalution DVD from Novell in its x86_64 arch version and proceed with the installation.
No problem with the Suse globally, the only strange think is that the dev tools are not installed by default (gcc is not available right from the start you need to install the appropriate package by yourself). Anyway in less then 1 week I found my marks even after some years working on Red Hat / Fedora in a Gnome environment. KDE is superb and YAST quite easy to use.
The big problem was the internet connection and essentially how to connect. I have a Tiscali (now Alice) subscription in France without the Alice Box thus 8 Mo downstream and Tiscali delivered me a SAGEM [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800 USB modem some years ago. Installing the modem on Windows showed me that the connection is a PPPoE LLC type (Bridged RFC2684).
I simply followed your explanations and did some research on the internet. Suse users you need to recompile your kernel in any case, just refer to the OtherModule help page on the atm.ueagle-use.org website, there is a document explaining very easily how to do it and which kernel options to check. The Bridge 2684 module is not available by default and same thing with the ATM support thus there is no way you skip this step. Let me be clear ever if I use Linux since 1997 I do not rebuilt my kernel every 3 weeks it actually only did it 1or 2 times some years ago (it was more than 1 hour to compile then). Thus I was quite reluctant but honestly you just need to read a bit and that's it (there is an excellent tutorial referenced on ueagle website on how to rebuild the kernel). In less than 2 minutes the kernel was done all right, then around 25 minutes for the modules and in less than 1 hour I rebooted using my brand new kernel (version provided with the Suse 10.0 is 2.6.13-15).
modprobe -f ueagle-atm
modprobe br2684
hop everything went ok at the first time. Next step was finding the br2684ctl. There is one very simple way (took me some research time and several solutions testing): download the linux-atm package from the opensuse website along with the rp-pppoe package (compiling br2684ctl is a bit of an issue). These packages are not provided with the evaluation version of the Novell Suse 10.0 don't look for them on your DVD (unless you bought it I think they are on the full retail version). Install those with YAST and you're done. Simply type:
br2684ctl -b -c 0 -e 0 -a 8.35 // creates a "virtual" ethernet device to use with your modem
ifconfig nas0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 // nas0 is the ethernet device name created by the previous command
adsl-start
and you're on :-)
Guys I had some stability problem with eagle-usb in the past on Fedora but the ueagle-atm is damn stable. I haven't been disconnect in hours no problem whatsoever.
Conclusion, you can clearly state on your website that ueagle-atm is fully functional on a x86_64 arch !!! :-))
Thanks again for your involvement and time spending on this project, I'm one very satisfied user :-)
Kind regards,
Cyril
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