On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:18:35 +0100, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I had a fcdslsl for about ... well... two days (and no Internet in that
> > time :-) ).
> The fcdslsl driver in portage was not that advanced by then I guess.
The official AVM driver was not yet working on linux at that time ...

> > It's about as crappy as most "softmodems". I'm back to an external
> > pppoe-based DSL modem since it just works.
> Quality of softmodems depends on the drivers .. if you use crappy
> drivers you get disconnects every half an hour ..
Hehe. If you live in Germany, you get disconnects every [5 ... 1440] minutes anyway :-)


> > No thanks. AVM has gone from "very good" to "cheap broken stuff" in a
> > very short time :-(
> So everything form AVM has gone to "cheap broken stuff", because you
> were not able to set up your dsl-card?
Well ... their latest offerings I could test were extremely
windows-centric and did not work to my satisfaction. And th fcdslsl is a
cheap DSP with some PCI interface glue ...

>  Please give us some moer
> examples .. I think they are actually pretty cool, especially the new
> fritzboxfons.
Haven't tested those yet. I hope they are better!

> > I still have a fcdslsl and an external pppoe-based DSL modem lying
> > around for any interested devs.
> 
> What pppoe-based DSL modem? Is it an usb-one that needs special
> drivers? Or just one of the ethernet-connected that works
> out-of-the-box?
It's an external ethernet-based thingy, belgian produce (so it might not
be fully standards compliant) for an analog+DSL connection (not ISDN)

I tend to keep away from those DSL-over-USB-over-SATA-over-WLAN things.
It's unneeded complexity that tends to make these things really hard to
use.

Note that I'm not saying that AVM produces cr*p. I'm only saying that
their old ISDN products were really good and their new stuff has been
rather frustrating for me.

Patrick