Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Oct 18, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > >Sorry to be late about this, but i think that removing plugin support is
> > >not so nice, especially as you then loose pppoatm support, and this
> > >would mean no installation over pppoatm ADSL modems.
> > You are *very* late, as ppp-udeb was killed a few weeks ago because
> > nobody could find an use for it.
> > Lack of pppd in udeb form does not mean that net install will be
> > impossible, it just requires something like the current net install
> > mini-CD, with a set of regular .deb to install on the installed system.
> >
> > >And yes, i plan to somehow make the unicorn drivers available as udebs,
> > >altough i don't know yet how i will achieve that and since they are
> > >non-free, they cannot go into the official medias.
> > If I have not missed some, looks like that *all* pppoatm modems share
> > this problem because even if the driver is free it has to upload a
> > firmware which we cannot redistribute.
>
> What do you think about Goswin's solution, and building both a ppp-udeb
> and a ppp+plugin-udeb package. The normal ppp-udeb is the one used by
> the normal d-i, while the ppp+plugin-udeb could be put together with the
> non-free per device .udebs on a floppy or something, and then loaded by
> d-i.
Lets make something use ppp.udeb first. :)
I guess we should make a floppy with udeb-modules-version, ppp.udeb,
pppoe.udeb and modem/dsl-config.udeb. ppp has support to build an udeb
and pppoe should be easy.
I guess there won't be much demand for analog modem install
floppies/cdroms, but dsl would be usefull to many.
Now who volunteres to write a dsl-config "installer module"?
MfG
Goswin