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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


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