the pppoatm patch i submited before had problems with disconnecting/reconnecting which i havent noticed until lately. I'm very sorry if this bothered anyone. The right file is in http://gateway.bedroom.gen.nz/~clive/adsl/thefiles/ppp-2.4.2cln.tar.gz at usr/src/ppp-2.4.2/pppd/plugins/pppoa/pppoatm.c i hope they gets included soon. one more thing, the ebuild installs it in /usr/lib/, it should be in /usr/lib/pppd/${PV}/. peace
Created attachment 29122 [details] the actual plugin
can you please post an updated patch?
Created attachment 29399 [details, diff] a patch against 2.4.2
added to -r2
Is there any reason why the 2.4.2-r2 ebuild will only apply this patch on x86? Has anyone tested on any other architectures? If it's not certain that it won't work, the effect here is that a person using another architecture can put 'atm' in $USE, but the atm support won't be built or included when ppp is emerged. I just tried on ppc, and there's not even a warning that the 'atm' used flag is ineffectual; but, when I tried an ebuild for ppp modified to remove the check for x86, ppp and the pppoatm.so library built without any problems. (I don't have an appropriate modem for testing pppoatm yet, unfortunately. I will be inheriting a speedtouch usb modem in a week or so, and am doing some of the preliminary stuff now, while I've got a bit of time.)
Addendum to my previous note: the pppoatm patch seems to work fine on ppc. The explicit x86 requirement in the ppp ebuild (i.e., apart from the masking with $KEYWORDS) thus seems unnecessary.
I've submitted a separate bug report about the explicit x86 requirement for pppoatm: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55881
