Following much blood sweat and tears by a thicko (me) and some hand holding from Phil Shrimpton and Ewan Leith - I'm pleased to report that Speedtouch has indeed been set to work out of the box and the HOWTO is now sitting on the support database (been there since thursday apparently...) I'll let you know... On Sunday 19 May 2002 11:22 pm, gerry gavigan wrote:
ADSL, Speedtouch - where I have got to
(has anyone thought about writing a SuSE HOWTO - I understand that originally ADSL with Alcatel was going to work "out of the box")
kpackage'd the latest sourceforge release code in RPM, installed two useless shell scripts intended for a Mandrake distro into etc/init.d/rc5.d (alas, both get called before usb gets set up by SuSE, and they're a bit advanced for me)
Also they appear to start before SuSE has set up the USB and refer to directories that don't exist on SuSE, I have been advised that these files should be placed in rc3.d
(might anyone in SuSE think about fiddling round with these files, so they work?)
but the RPM did contain modem_run
(recalling that currently the modem isn't connected to anything but is recognised in Yast2)
modem_run -m -f /path/to/mgmt.o
gets the red light flashing indicating that the modem is downloading the firmware, but never seems to stop, i.e., bash prompt doesn't return any time soon, without cntl Z which "stops the script" even though the red light and green light are still active
(so presumably, right now modem_run couldn't be run, e.g., in a script, even if it is working?)
is there any advice available?
setting DoD introduces the little plug (like dialup) in the taskbar so that's how one gets DoD, not by, e.g., firing up the browser
is that right?
finally, a general point, e.g., pipex gives one main e-mail address and 12 web based addresses - am I right in assumng that Kmail will only work with the "real" e-mail address, and that the others are work in the same way as, e.g., netscape mail?
don't yet have the broadband connection, testing stuff on the way, perhaps it would all be easier to test idf I did, but I'm a bit nervous
I'd be grateful for any advice anyone can give
Gerry Gavigan