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We've tested the DSL over POTS modem from AVM last week, it can be configured from our graphical wizard drakconnect. The connection can be established and managed with our network applet.

Since we launch drdsl from the wizard, the graphical wizard may appear to be freezed for some seconds, I should add a "Please wait, detecting your DSL connection settings" message, but it was too late because of the string freeze.

However, there is a small bug with the pppd capi plugin from isdn4k-utils, it doesn't detach pppd even if we specify the updetach option. That triggers an annoying bug if the capi connection is set to start at boot, the connection will hang the boot because pppd won't detach during the network service initialization. I haven't found time to fix this bug yet, I'll have to dig into capi plugin source code.

I think the wizard will also work fine with DSL over ISDN connections, it's pretty much the same as DSL over POST configuration.

A new drdsl has been released recently, but it was too late to include it in Mandriva 2005 LE ftp://ftp.in-berlin.de/pub/capi4linux/drdsl/drdsl-1.2.0.tar.gz



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Olivier Blin (2005)