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I have just had ADSL installed on my phone line, with a Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem.

I have not yet been able to get ot to work with Suse as there don;t seem to be any Linux drivers (as usual).

Oh yes there are.... http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net

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Have any of you got it to work ?

Yes. Took less than an hour on SuSE 7.2 with the how-to and drivers from above URL.

I looked at that lot on behalf of a friend. It made seriously horrible reading - I'm suprised you got it together so quickly. Fortunately - or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint - the driver doesn't work on SMP machines, and as that's all he has, I didn't actually have to bother. He uses it from Windows, which would worry me if it was mine, but it ain't, so it don't. ;o) -- 3:09pm up 34 days, 23:34, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.01

Well in 7.2+ 2/3rds of the how-to is already done, so no patching and recompiling of the kernel is needed. It was litually just installing the driver and making a few minor changes in a couple of scripts.

Fair point. I was working on a 7.1 system, and I wasn't sure which bits were already done for me by SuSE.

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Fortunately - or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint - the driver doesn't work on SMP machines, and as that's all he has,

Thats a USB issue AFAIK, USB does not 'wok right' with Windows either. USB2 was meant to address that, but has introduced a number of security issues.

Actually I went to the link at sourceforge you gave and found a totally different thing to what I was using. I must have been working with the more complex "kernel module" version it talks about. Also, having checked the appropriate list's archives, it does seem that the "user space" version you're using is OK with SMP systems. Perhaps I was a bit premature there...

I had it running under Windows for the best part of a year, and I averaged 3-4 days uptime, under Linux I am managing about 25-30 days. It also seams faster, but I am not sure what utility I should use for measuring my connection speed.

Only 3-4 weeks under Linux? That's pretty poor actually! Do you have any reason to believe that this unreliability is being caused by the modem driver? The real reason my friend wanted a Linux machine doing the connection work was for security. I told him to take an old P166 machine he has and put it between his Windows gateway (with the modem) and his internal network. The Windows box will still be vunerable, but having a Linux firewall in there will at least protect his network's data... -- 8:38am up 35 days, 17:03, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.10, 0.05

Hi! I've scratched my 7.3 Installation Disk 1. Where from can I download a full copy of it? I tried www.suse.de and www.suse.com but I'm not sure in the FTP download area what/where to select. TIA Thomas

Since you are in Europe I would contact the customer service in Germany about a replacement. No one on the list can do it. :) * Joe Sullivan (flamester@telia.com) [020419 18:57]: ::On Saturday 20 April 2002 01:26, Thomas Beauchamp wrote: ::> Hi! ::> ::> I've scratched my 7.3 Installation Disk 1. ::> Where from can I download a full copy of it? ::> I tried www.suse.de and www.suse.com but I'm not sure in the FTP ::> download area what/where to select. ::> TIA ::> ::> Thomas :: :: ::-- ::To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ::For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ::Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com :: -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -GC --=====-----=====--

For those of you in the UK that don't know already there is an informative website www.adslguide.org.uk that covers many aspects of getting adsl including info about the Alcatel USB modem I've found this thread quite helpful as I am about to build a linux workstation with suse 8.0 for a friend and her family. Just one box with multiple users. No server or network running. All seemed straight forward until she asked if they could have ADSL. (I'm quite happy with a 56k modem for the moment and so have no plans for direct experience of ADSL) If someone could point me to some really simple answers I'd be grateful. The family will all want their own e-mail accounts. If I had the skill no doubt I'd just configure a MDA (is this seriously difficult?) However I understand that an ISP with several POP boxes provides an easy alternative. I believe the modem needs setting up in some way - is this difficult when you only have Linux - does Alcatel provide anything to help? Speed and bandwidth apart does ADSL operate in a different way from dial up? For example, do you still need to click on the little connector in the toolbar and then on the in tray in Kmail? If there are ways on doing it all automatically are they worth it on a single box - multiuser setup? Sorry for the newbie questions - but if there are guides or if someone has the patience I'd be grateful gerry On Tuesday 09 April 2002 7:44 pm, Stephen Allewell wrote:

Grové Erasmus wrote:

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I have just had ADSL installed on my phone line, with a Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem.

I have not yet been able to get ot to work with Suse as there don;t seem to be any Linux drivers (as usual). Have any of you got it to work ? it does not get picked upi when I boot into Linux.

The modem version I have is for United Kingdom only, and my ISP is PIPEX.

Cheers friends :-))

Grové Erasmus

I have ADSL (also PIPEX) working with 7.3. I followed the instructions at http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index.en.php3 I also found a script to go in /etc/init.d that will make a connection at boot time. I'll post it in full as I can't find the link.

You will just need to add the appropriate links in the runlevel directories.

For your info I've never had a moments bother with this setup. works great.

regards

Steve

#!/bin/sh # # System startup script for the ADSL driver by Benoit PAPILLAULT # -------------------------------------------------------------- # Author: Nicolas Michon # Version 0.2 # # # Assume the alcatel firmware is /usr/local/lib/mgmt.o and the # Benoit's driver in /usr/local/bin (change ADSL_BIN in other # case). Your connection must work manually before, of course. # # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: adsl # Required-Start: $remote_fs usbmgr # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: Starts and stops an ADSL connection ### END INIT INFO

# Source SuSE config . /etc/rc.config

# Determine the base and follow a runlevel link name. base=${0##*/} link=${base#*[SK][0-9][0-9]}

# Force execution if not called by a runlevel directory. test $link = $base && START_ADSL=yes test "$START_ADSL" = yes || exit 0

ADSL_BIN=/usr/local/bin/modem_run test -x $ADSL_BIN || exit 5

# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status: . /etc/rc.status

# First reset status of this service rc_reset

case "$1" in start) echo "Starting ADSL connection" sleep 2 $ADSL_BIN -f /usr/local/bin/mgmt.o -m start_daemon /usr/sbin/pppd call adsl rc_status -v ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down ADSL connection" killproc -INT /usr/sbin/pppd killproc -INT $ADSL_BIN rc_status -v ;; try-restart) $0 stop && $0 start rc_status ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start rc_status ;; try-restart) echo -n "Reload service ADSL connection" $0 stop && $0 start rc_status ;; reload) exit 3 ;; status) echo -n "Checking for ADSL connection : "

checkproc $ADSL_BIN; rc=$? if test $rc = 0 then echo "OK" else echo "No process" fi exit 3 ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|try-restart|restart|force-reload|reload}" exit 1 ;; esac #end

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 18:44, Stephen Allewell wrote: Hi,

I also found a script to go in /etc/init.d that will make a connection at boot time. I'll post it in full as I can't find the link.

Thanks for posting that. Cheers Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 11:16pm up 9:41, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.21, 0.12