ISDN (Re: pptp-linux)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:30:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:22 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Good point.  We currently do not have isdnutils on the CD.  It's no problem
> > to add it; what other tools should be present on the CD to have reasonable
> > greatest-common-factor ISDN support?
> 
> ok, if we add it, please sync isdnutils again from unstable/testing
> (fixing the pppdcapiplugin and isdnactivecards package).

Please request a sync of the proper versions according to the usual
procedure.

> On the CD we should have:
> 
> - isdnutils-base, ipppd (for the old ISDN modules)
> - libcapi20, pppdcapiplugin and isdnactivecards for the active and AVM
>   cards

Let's deal with these when we have the proper versions.

> - misdn (currently packaging)
> 
> Can we disable the loading of the new misdn modules by default? They
> seem a bit unstable at the moment, so this should be an optional module
> which is not dicovered by default.

If it is unstable, and the userland tools are not configured yet, then I
have doubts about shipping it with a claim of support for Warty.  Does misdn
provide support for different hardware, or is it only a different
implementation where older drivers exist?

> For ISDN Fax support a resync of hylafax and capi4hylafax would be nice.
> gfax currently doesn't have ISDN CAPI support.

Nice fax support in the desktop is a goal for Hoary+; we'll worry about this
then.

-- 
 - mdz