Hi, Those alcatel USB modems are utter crap - I've had more problems in the past than I can count including complete lock-ups on SMP systems, LCP timeouts and the line randomly dropping left right and center. Ebay it and buy a full hardware router. You'll be pleasantly surprised :-) My recommendation is actually to buy an Alcatel Speedtouch Pro router from http://www.dslsource.co.uk/ (about £75) and grab an Intel Pro 100 card from somewhere of your choice although any LAN card that works in Linux would be ok tbh. I have a speedtouch pro router connected to newnet adsl, plugged into an Intel onboard LAN (in a compaq workstation) here and it works floorlessly. Basically, forget ethernet modems/usb modems and grab a router. Linux PPPoA and speedtouch usb drivers are flakey as hell and always have been. I doubt they will ever change. Hope this helps, - Chris. http://www.infinitemonkeys.org.uk/ On Friday 17 January 2003 22:47, Peter John Cameron wrote:
I assume your refering to the USB Speedtouch modem. I have the same, using PPPoA. There have been various threads on this list about getting it to work. The LCP timeouts occur when the modem hasn't been initialised correctly. How are you loading the firmware? This setup does work, and works well. Are you using the SuSE setup or the SourceForge one?
Yes, it's the USB modem and it doesn't work on my PC with Suse 8.1 Prof. I've tried all the solutions, each on a freshly installed machine. I've even tried the latest Suse kernels. In all cases the modem initialises and the downstream and upstream speeds are reported.
Then, in the case of sourceforge, it's LCP timeouts. With the Alcatel speedmgmt daemon and "ifup dsl0", nothing happens and the machine eventually hangs with flashing keyboard lights.
Someone at Suse was looking into this, although all they managed to suggest so far was trying to kickstart things with a "dhcpcd ppp0". Er no. dhcpcd complains that ppp0 is not ethernet or token ring. I guess they've probably given up.
Of course, the modem works quite happily when I boot into windoze XP.
Peter