Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Geoff Horn <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 February 2005 12:38, mikael persson wrote:
> Hi list,
> I am completly new to the world of linux and quite overwhelmed with all
> manner of configuration this little beatuy requires.
> I consider myself a total novice and know hardly anything, but will try
> and learn as much as I can.
> Now off to my first question, I am trying to configure my USB ADSL modem
> to work with suse 9.2. But am having no luck.
<snip>
> I am very grateful for any help you can throw my way.
>
> cheers,
> Mikael

Hello Mikael,

You'd think that with the popularity of the speedtouch/speedtouch 330 usb adsl 
modems that there'd be better support for these under SuSE 9.2. I've found 
that the easiest way to get my 330 going under SuSE 9.2 was to use the 
speedtouchconf package from Steve Parker: 
http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/

Even with this latest package there are problems with SuSE 9.2, but even so I 
was able to go online with it on my first attempt. The problem was that I had 
to go through the setup after every boot!  However I've modified two of the 
files (speedtouch.init and speedtouchconf.sh) and now it installs very easily 
and there's no editing to be done. I've contacted Steve Parker about this and 
he says he gave me some hints and said that he needs to do some work for the 
2.6 Kernel. If you want these two modified files just email me off list.

Basically with speedtouchconf you just need to untar it (and possibly replace 
those two files mentioned above), then copy a zip file of the microcode you 
need into the same directory (I use rev4fw.zip). Finally just run the bash 
file speedtouchconf.sh as root and answer the questions.

You should be able to check your modem's rev by doing a 
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

Here's what I get:

P:  Vendor=06b9 ProdID=4061 Rev= 4.00
S:  Manufacturer=THOMSON
S:  Product=Speed Touch 330

So I have a Rev 4 Speedtouch 330, and it is silver.

Geoff Horn