Re: [RFC] ADSL: Experimental PPPoE support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 07:57 +0200, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 21:38 +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> >> This is a first cut at experimental PPPoE support for ADSL devices.
> >> There are several shortcuts and the code is ugly, but it works so
> >> it can be used as a strawman to improve upon.
> >>
> >> Happily waiting for comments / testing / suggestions :)
> >
> > I rebased the 'adsl' branch to git master and wrote some code to talk
> > the ioctls directly instead of using br2684ctl.  As Dave Woodhouse
> > pointed out, br2684ctl isn't that complicated so we might as well just
> > talk to the kernel.  However, I don't have an ADSL connection to test
> > with (I only have a modem for basic hardware detection support) so if
> > anyone can test out the code on the 'adsl' branch that would be great.
> > Make sure to run NM with "--log-level=debug" or to set "level=debug" in
> > the [logging] section of NetworkManager.conf so we can more easily debug
> > any failures.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> I will try to test it today and also provide ubuntu packages for other people
> to test more easily as well.

I fixed a few other bugs yesterday, so try 'adsl' git from Tuesday or
it's guaranteed to fail :)

Dan