amedyn / amedyn2

Linux drivers for USB ADSL modems built on the Alcatel chipset: the ZyXEL Prestige 630-11, the Asus AAM6000UG, the Digicom MichelAngelo USB A, the Topcom Webracer 851 and the PROLiNK Hurricane 8000.

Two modules live side by side:

Directory	Purpose
amedyn/	the historical xdslusb module for Linux 2.4 and 2.6, together with the userspace tools (amload, amstart, PPPoE/PPPoA connection scripts)
amedyn2/	a rewrite (amedyn2.c) built on top of the generic usbatm driver, for recent 2.6 kernels

History

This repository is the result of converting the old SourceForge CVS repository (zyxel630-11), completed with the four releases of the earlier aam6000ug project that preceded it:

Period	Origin
2003-10 to 2004-08	SourceForge project aam6000ug (-src.tgz tarballs)
2004-12 to 2007-08	CVS repository zyxel630-11 (the amedyn and amedyn2 modules)

The CVS history was rebuilt from the ,v files: the dates, authors and commit messages are the original ones. The first day of each module is folded into a single import commit, because CVS timestamps the individual file revisions of one import a few seconds apart.

The amedyn-<date> and amedyn2-<date> tags correspond to the releases that were actually published on SourceForge. The original CVS tags were deleted from the repository afterwards; their names were recovered from CVSROOT/history and are recorded in the tag annotation wherever the mapping could be established.

Excluded files

Kernel build leftovers (module/.tmp_versions/*.mod) and the proprietary firmware blobs (*.bin) are not versioned here — see amedyn/firmware/README.md. The CVSROOT directory, which held a password hash, was dropped as well.

Archived web page

The documentation was also hosted on a University of Liège student page (~counasse/modem/) until at least 2008. That host is gone, so the page was recovered from the Wayback Machine and kept under web/ — see web/README.md for the details. Its index.html is byte-for-byte identical to amedyn/doc/index.html, which independently confirms the reconstruction against a copy hosted outside the repository.

License

GPL v2 — see amedyn/COPYING and its translation amedyn/COPIANDO.

Authors

• Josep Comas (jcomas) — original author of the driver
• sktt (Aurelio) — main maintainer
• Emmanuel Counasse (manuc66) — maintainer, translations

Installing

This code dates from 2003-2007 and targets the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It will not build on a modern kernel without substantial rework. For current-day use, prefer an in-kernel usbatm driver.