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Bug#384248: installation-report: Almost successful Etch installation with di-beta3



> Just FYI. D-Link DSL-200 (rev.B1) was distributed "for free" _as
> officially supported modem_ for new ADSL users during the last months
> by one popular ADSL provider in Saint-Petersburg and suburbia. So, I
> think several thousands of users are currently using it here. Of
> course most of them work under Windows, but as you see not everyone.
> So, eciadsl package is quite important for us.


Maybe it's still time to try working to support such modems from the
installer, through the ppp-udeb and all that kind of stuff.

There has been some increased interest in PPPoE support for the
installer in the very few last days.....we should maybe try to avoid
letting this vanishing.

I really encourage people interested in this to subscribe to
debian-boot@l.d.o, join the #debian-boot IRC channel and....try.

Eddy Petrisor did some work with Marco for a working ppp-udeb
package. That work mostly needs to be completed to make it an official
feature of D-I. That can maybe be done on time for Etch.....or anyway,
it would be good to have this working for post-etch.

(of course, the tricky part will certainly be these firmware issues
one usually faces with the USB DSL modems, unfortunately)


I personnally know nothing about this stuff (or very few.....I very
quickly dropped the USB modem offerred by my ISP when I got DSL, 4
years ago).....and I can just encourage you people to try working on
all this.


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