On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:16 +0530, Srikanth Nori wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking through Bugzilla, and saw that USB ADSL support has been > "Assigned" (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109671) See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/131554 > Anyway, I was wondering what is the status of development? Is still it being > actively pursued? Maybe not officially, but I have a couple of these and I was extremely annoyed at how hard it was to get it all working properly. So I've been poking at it a little bit. First, we ideally need to ditch the need for the userspace 'modem_run' tool which loads the firmware and monitors the line status, and make the kernel driver complete. For this we need to work out why the patches at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=109632100700275 and at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=109635896807369 both fail to actually load the firmware, despite being an identical copy of what gets done in userspace. It would help if someone with more usb-fu than myself (Pete) could take a look -- maybe I'm missing something totally obvious in my initialisation which gets done automatically for the userspace tool via hotplug+usbdevfs. I'd never actually looked hard at the contents of drivers/usb before yesterday. Then we need to clean up the pppoatm plugin for pppd so that it's actually acceptable to the pppd maintainer and it gets merged into pppd properly. I asked him about it in July and he muttered something about the way it negates options? After that we can ship the new kernel driver, linux-atm and pppd with pppoatm plugin, and then move on to fixing up the initscripts and system-config-network accordingly. While we're at it, the pppoe support wants switching to use the pppd plugin instead of rp-pppoe too. -- dwmw2
