There is an ebuild for the speedtouch modem (in net-dialup). I just want the same for my Bewan Adsl PCI modem. Else, I can't connect to internet from gentoo. 1. the kernel must support ATM (it seems to have) 2. PPP must have the ATM plugin (missing) 3. Write the ebuild. Here is the official sources of the driver: http://francis64.free.fr/data/A904-A888-0.5.0.tar.gz.tar Here is a french page which explains how to compile this driver under Mandrake. Gentoo developers just have to do the same for Gentoo: http://passionlinux.free.fr/bewan/bewanlinux.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Of course, I can test the ebuild for you.
Okay after brushing up on my limited french skills, I have a couple concerns about pulling this off. Unlike the speedtouch which basically just supplies a driver and a script, pppoatm requires ppp to be rebuilt and directories remade which will break ppp. That's probably a minor problem overall, but my other concerns range from carrying an old build of ppp which this requires(2.4.0-2b) to the addition of atm libs to compile the plugin against, and other minor concerns. Im still investigating a way to carry this off against current ppp ebuilds, to avoid it being dropped later on.
We need an ebuild for the Linux-ATM (http://linux-atm.sourceforge.net/) I tested a very unofficial ebuild. It works, and the linux-atm seems to be installed fine: http://pupetmaster.free.fr/sources/linux-atm-2.4.1-r1.ebuild It would be interesting to add this ebuild to the official portage tree (even in the masked state).
please create an ebuild and attach it
linux-atm is in cvs now
please reopen when ebuild exists
wrangler
Created attachment 26473 [details] ppp 2.4.2 with pppoatm.so plugin Please find enclosed ppp 2.4.2 with pppoatm.so plugin. It works for me who have a Bewan ADSL PCI St modem with the lastest 2.4.25 kernel. Crashoverride71 Long life to Gentoo
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3578 ***
