Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:08:09 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on PPPoE & ADSL (Telstra Bigpond) Message-ID: <39F9B679.CA563B9E@lucent.com> References: <F50iFEW6sStwNeKjUbE00001146@hotmail.com> <39F8C29F.D785C588@lucent.com> <39F9210E.B728D4F8@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > > "Gary T. Corcoran" wrote: > > > > [Quick background: I implemented PPPoE in our DSL drivers for the Lucent DSL adapters] > > Under Windows I presume? > No BSD drivers? :-) Well, actually... :-) Besides Windows drivers, we were also tasked with writing drivers for Linux. We did that, but since I am a fan of FreeBSD, and I had already figured out what the porting issues from Windows to Linux were, I also ported the code to FreeBSD. Until recently though the BSD version wasn't too useful, as FreeBSD doesn't presently have the capability to have parameters when doing a kldload (long story short: I need to know which main flavor of DSL protocol I'm going to use, to know whether to become an ethernet-like or a PPP device at device attach time). But then Terry Lambert told me of a trick with loading an extra "parameter module" first, whereby I could do an ioctl to the parameter module, then load the DSL driver and have it read the parameters from the parameter module. I got this basically working last Friday. I need to polish up the code a bit, but then it will be ready for beta testing*, if you have a Lucent WildWire DSL (PCI plug-in card) adapter. Anybody interested in trying it? * assuming my bosses lets me post or send out the code at this time. Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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