Are eagle-usb-* packages inside the Dapper CDs?

[Loïc Martin]

Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 12:03 +0200, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> IMHO, to provide Internet connection to the user must be a critical
>>> priority,
>>>
>>>       
>> Whatever priority it is, we can't magic into existance knowledge of
>> this.  It's not a time problem, it's simply that we can't fix the
>> packages without testing them.
>>
>> Nobody has come forward to actually say they have one of these modems,
>> and one of these ADSL lines.
>>
>> So nobody is available to get the packages into shape.
>>     
>
>   
Here in France, the providers usually support linux  by offering the 
choice between  USB and Ethernet ADSL modems. So the first step to 
support ADSL users might be solving this bug :

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-network/+bug/44161/

Then users can exchange their modem (most don't buy them, but rent them 
along with the ADSL connection) for an Ethernet one. With an Ethernet 
ADSL modem, everything needed would be improving the default network 
configuration utility in Dapper.

I don't really think adding the functionality needs having the modem, 
especially since other distributions support them and their code is 
available.

Of course, I might be completely out to lunch and the problem was solved 
long ago (the bug report has only been filled on 05/11, but there were 
discussions about supporting ADSL users with Dapper a few month ago, and 
I though somebody was working on it, so I stupidly didn't fill a bug... 
I just realised now that there might still be no support for ADSL in 
Dapper), but for now the only method I know is using pppoeconf. If it's 
been solved, thanks!


> I have the hardware (but not the line, although I could get access to
> it) and I am planning to solve this issue. However I need help in
> finding proper way to solve it.
>
> First thing is plugging the whole thing into network management
> infrastructure. How such modem should be set up? As PPP modem? As
> network card? It uses PPPoE/PPPoA. Maybe it should be integrated with
> NetworkManager?
>   
Yes it should. Atm, the solution is using pppoeconf from the command 
line (though it does the job quite well).