On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:18:35 +0100, Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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