[gentoo-dev] Re: PPP over ATM support (and Speedtouch userspace driver)

[Stefan Jones]

I have made a sort of ebuild for speedtouch modem and sumittied it as a
bug report, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2300
I am still waiting for it to be included.
	One way of installing using the current boot cd would be to use stage 1
gcc on the CD to compile the driver, only setting up the network once
this has been done.

	Stefan
	



On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:32:09 +0100, by way of Luca R.
<l.riso@××××××××××.it> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>         I'd like to know if it will be possible to include the PPP over
>         ATM
> support  in the mini-installation files, in the future. It would be a
> great help for people that need PPP to connect to internet to begin thei
> nstallation from scratch. The only modem (i think) that uses pppoa on
> linuxi s the USB Alcatel Speedtouch modem. There are a lot of people
> that use it, and there's also an available driver at
> http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ Just for your knowledge, that driver
> is under the GPL license, but it need a binary file (the firmware) in
> order to work; it must be downloaded from the Alcatel web site for legal
> reasons and so it can't be provided into a complete package: the user
> has to add it somewhere. You can find more details about that in the
> documents provided with the driver itself.
>
>
>                 Thank you for your attention,
>                                         Luca.