Chutney said: > Hi Alex, > > Being a SysAdmin, the porting job seems somewhat challenging to me... > and gcc will give me nightmares ;-)
Assuming you have a decent set of GNU tools (gcc, make, autoconf) already installed you should be ok (most admins I've met seem to prefer them to the proprietry ones :-). > The PPP that ships with Solaris doesn't appear to be a 'client' and > appears to be oriented towards serial interface, analog modems with no > support for the ATM side of things. Thats ok. The "user-mode" solution we did doesn't require PPP to know about ATM. Thats what pppoa does. As far as pppd is concerned it treats the pppoa process as a pty (i.e. a psudeo serial tty). The Linux kernel-mode solution requires an ATM aware pppd daemon, but thats not us! > I've tried comp.sys.sun for suggestions and support - but the community > seems oriented towards large scale enterprise stuff... Well, not many home users run Solaris AFAIK. But its always nice to support another *nix platform. I'll cc this to the speedtouch mailing list to see if there are any closet Solaris people there as well. > Well - I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on. Goood luck. Alex. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Bennee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:41 AM > Subject: Re: PPPoA Drivers for Alcatel SpeedTouch USB > > >> Chutney said: >> > What is the possibility of compiling a Solaris9/Sparc version of >> > this? >> >> Well the code is POSIXish code and Solaris is meant to have a Linux >> ABI compatibilty layer (but I don't know if that includes USB >> support). Worst case you would need to write a version of pusb (the >> portable usb library) for Solaris (to complement the Linux and BSD >> ones). I believe pppd should already support Solaris. >> >> > I've been searching high and low for something like this with no >> > luck. Any chance you could compile a version for me? >> >> Sorry. No Solaris boxes here. The code is available, why not try it >> and > see >> how far you get. Your going to need some Solaris knowledge if it >> doesn't work out of the box though. You could try solicting help from >> other > solaris >> users? >> >> Alex >> www.bennee.com/~alex/ Alex www.bennee.com/~alex/ Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
