Hi
Seems my attached patch for the ADSL ISP list in Drakconnect (+ the
file) did not go through... (I sent it privately to Thierry/blino).
The file can be viewed here :
http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/eagleusb/eagleusb/utils/scripts/adsl_consts.pm?rev=1.4&sortby=date&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
(with minor modification : Common instead of common)

Changelog :
 - new fields for the database, may be used to add information for the
user (see below)
 - new ISP : Ceský Telecom (Czech Republic), Tiscali.ch (Switzerland),
Planet.tn (Tunisia)

New fields / possible uses are :
 - id : to identify uniquely an ISP
 - url_tech : an URL (when given by ISP) for configuration parameters
=> could be displayed by Drakconnect to suggest the user to have a
look at it
 - dnsServers_text : when there are more than 2 DNS to choose from =>
could be displayed in Drakconnect to help enter DNS (for static
connections mainly)
 - methods_all : some ISP permit several connections mode, either
static or dhcp => could be displayed as text  "available connections
methods for this ISP"
 - modem : identifies the modem given by the ISP
=> if you take into account all those fields, we could have exactly
the same file, so updates will be easier between Mandrakesoft &
eagle-usb.org project (all comments welcome to enhance this database
and avoid duplication of data)

Changes to come for eagle-usb driver :
- FHS compliancy (/usr/share/eagle-usb contains data + scripts that
were previously in /etc/eagle-usb/ )
- with help of Sagem and Analog we are going to implement CMV for
"easier" connection to some ISP (it is becoming critical for ISP
providing 8 mbps, as the modem has great difficulties to synchronize).
There will be two new fields to manage this configuration : CMVep &
CMVei (containing FR04 for Free dégroupé for example, in order to use
/usr/share/eagle-usb/CMVepFR04.txt)
- new eagle-usb with latest DSPcode (useful for Fast 800 E2L, E2T and
compulsory for Fast 800 E3). No news yet for license : only "you are
free to distribute".
- planned release date : well... ASAP (should be by next monday, sorry
for the delay)

Impacts on Drakconnect :
 - display information to the user, using new fields (ask me to be
more precise if that's not clear where to display it)
 - maybe you could use eagleconfig instead of writing directly to
/etc/eagle-usb/eagle-usb.conf ?
 - find a way to manage new fields CMVep/CMVei : add those field to
"expert configuration" with VPI/VCI/encapsulation (but only for
eagle-usb)

I know we are not on debian-legal, but has anybody ideas whether there
should be a copyright+GPL header on this ISPdatabase file ? It can be
seen as simple aggregation of facts (technical data) - hence not
copyrightable - though the database structure may be copyrightable,
simple as it is ?

Hope this helps
@++
Ben'. aka baud123

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