PPP connection over USB ADSL modem.

[Venugopal Kaliyannan]

I have recently installed Nevada on my laptop.

I have an ISP who had provided me with an ADSL modem (made by 'Billion'). Can anyone point me to where I can get the necessary drivers for Solaris?

I also tried with the USB generic driver. usb_mid had created the necessary endpoints under the directory /dev/usb/<vid>.xxx. But did not know how to setup the chat scripts etc for the pppd. Any suggestions in this regard will be helpful.

Thanks.
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[James Carlson]

Post by Venugopal Kaliyannan
I have an ISP who had provided me with an ADSL modem (made by 'Billion'). Can anyone point me to where I can get the necessary drivers for Solaris?
I also tried with the USB generic driver. usb_mid had created the necessary endpoints under the directory /dev/usb/<vid>.xxx. But did not know how to setup the chat scripts etc for the pppd. Any suggestions in this regard will be helpful.

Any chance that this device has Ethernet as well? If so, then the
PPPoE implementation in Solaris should help.

I don't believe that ADSL "modems" (really: ATM bridges) present
themselves as normal asynchronous serial or synchronous ports when
used on USB, so you'll very likely need a driver specific to that
device. (If they did look like normal ports, pppd would work fine,
and I could help with the configuration.)

[Huafeng Lu]

For regular ADSL, try this. The author is clearly in India. I followed
it and it works in Beijing, China. (Well, I pointed some minor errors to
the author; not sure whether he modified it or not.)

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/popuri?anchor=configuring_pppoe_on_bsnl_networks

Post by James Carlson

Post by Venugopal Kaliyannan
I have an ISP who had provided me with an ADSL modem (made by 'Billion'). Can anyone point me to where I can get the necessary drivers for Solaris?
I also tried with the USB generic driver. usb_mid had created the necessary endpoints under the directory /dev/usb/<vid>.xxx. But did not know how to setup the chat scripts etc for the pppd. Any suggestions in this regard will be helpful.

Any chance that this device has Ethernet as well? If so, then the
PPPoE implementation in Solaris should help.
I don't believe that ADSL "modems" (really: ATM bridges) present
themselves as normal asynchronous serial or synchronous ports when
used on USB, so you'll very likely need a driver specific to that
device. (If they did look like normal ports, pppd would work fine,
and I could help with the configuration.)

[Martin Cerveny]

Try: http://blogs.sun.com/vita78
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[James Carlson]

Post by Martin Cerveny
Try: http://blogs.sun.com/vita78

CDMA isn't the same thing as ADSL, is it?

[James Carlson]

Post by James Carlson

Post by Martin Cerveny
Try: http://blogs.sun.com/vita78

CDMA isn't the same thing as ADSL, is it?

Sure CDMA is not ADSL. But you can try to use the same knowledge.
There is "some device" that send PPP protocol over USB interconnect.

If it really does present itself as a serial port, then the
configuration is straightforward. Something like this:

usb/whatever
noipdefault
noauth
noccp
defaultroute
user "yournamehere"

and then this in pap-secrets or chap-secrets:

"yournamehere" * "your passphrase"

But I doubt that an ADSL device would actually look the same as a
plain old serial port, like a CDMA telephone would. The complexity of
this project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cp4218

seems to suggest otherwise. It actually looks like some sort of ATM
interface, which suggests AAL-5 and PPPoA.