Bug 131555

Summary:	pppoatm support missing.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	ppp	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3
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Bug Depends On:	131559
Bug Blocks:	131554, 131556

Description David Woodhouse 2004-09-02 09:26:31 UTC

Although we ship speedtch.ko, we don't ship the PPP over ATM plugin
which is required for use with it. Without this, UK users cannot use
the standard USB DSL modem provided with most DSL packages. 

The pppoatm plugin requires libatm from the linux-atm package. Either
we'd need to ship linux-atm, or we could build the pppoatm module with
the required parts of libatm linked statically.

If the latter, perhaps we'd want to build the pppoatm module in its
own package rather than with pppd -- hence perhaps we'd want a
ppp-devel package with just the header files needed to make a plugin?

Discuss.

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2004-09-02 10:06:30 UTC

I think it would be good to include linux-atm in fc4. 

There has to be made any necessary adjustments in the initscripts and
networking stuff.

Comment 2 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2004-09-02 10:47:31 UTC

some random comments:
(caveat, the last time I used a STUSB was when I was living in the UK,
this was kernel 2.4 time and speedtouch-1.1 was current at the time.)

  -
http://membres.lycos.fr/linuxdebutant/modules.php?menu=Howtos&howtoid=15
has a french howto
  - the microcode for the STUSB is owned by alcatel, I doubt we will
be able to supply this, but asking Alcatel sure will not hurt. Worst
case a solution a la http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ may work.
  - http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/docs/howto.html has
something called speedbundle, that should help in making the enduser's
life easier.
  - we propbably want to include a VPI/VCI selector drop down in
system-config-network, users will know what their provider is, but are
generally lost when asked about the values. Thus selecting 'UK,
BTopenworld' would set a VPI of 0 and a VCI of 38, 'US, BellSouth'
would set a VPI of 8 and a VCI of 35, etc.

Comment 3 David Woodhouse 2004-09-02 10:55:26 UTC

You're quite right, we should probably do these things.

But if it gets to the point where all we have to worry about is the
user finding the firmware and getting the VPI/VCI out of the
documentation they're provided with, I'll be happy.

Comment 5 David Woodhouse 2004-10-04 13:33:13 UTC

ppp-2.4.2-6.1 should be in rawhide soon, and includes the pppoatm plugin.

The plugin actually uses very little from the ATM libraries, so I just
imported the two routines it _does_ use rather than depend on the
whole linux-atm package.