PPPoE emulation on USB modems? (non PPPoA ISPs)

[Nuno Teixeira]

Hello to all,

Today I subscribed to an adsl service in Portugal. I choose to buy a
Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem because of pppoa port exists. PPPoA port
doesn't work because my ISP don't support PPPoA connections, only PPPoE.
(Bad luck!).

I've searched google and I found that the solution for this problem is
to emulate a ethernet device and then use PPPoE protocol to connect.

I found a patch that make this works:

http://www.prout.be/ECI/speedtouch.html

Description: ... Which enables the Speedtouch USB driver to support
PPPoE with rp-pppoe, as some providers don't seem to support PPPoA

Does anyone knows if there is any solution for my case?

Thanks very much,

		Nuno Teixeira

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