----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Shrimpton" <phil@shrimpton.co.uk> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, 25 June, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: [SLE] Alcatel USB ASDL Modem - Revisited... Hi, Right I go a new 'up to date' machine, SuSE 7.1 installed like a dream, all hardware was recognised first time including the USB card. So I decided to have another attempt to move my Alcatel USB ASDL Modem from my Windows workstation to this new machine. I have been trying to follow the how to at...
http://www.linuxdude.co.uk/docs/Alcatel-Speedtouch-USB-mini-HOWTO/speedtouch
usb.html
..and I am stumbling at the first step...
It says...
"Patching the kernel..
Test the pppoatm-1 patch: patch -p1 -s -E --dry-run < /path/to/pppoatm-1
If this command produces any output then something is wrong with your 2.4.2 kernel source tree. Please fix it before continuing."
Well I get screens and screens of error messages, so I suppose I must fix my broken kernel source tree (is the default 2.4 kernel from SuSE in 7.1)
How do I find out what's wrong?
has anyone has got their Alcatel USB ASDL Modem under SuSE?
Cheers
Phil
If you do a standard SuSE installation with 7.1 the kernel is most likely 2.2.18 instead of 2.4 Easiest way to fix this is to run YAST and to then install kernel 2.4 So now you have 2.4 but the packages at linuxdude require at least 2.4.2 At linuxorg you can download up to kernel 2.4.5 so take you're pick. B.T.W. I've got the same problem with my Alcatel USB SpeedTouch. And I haven't been able to get it working yet either. I requested support from SuSE but they told me, as the driver is a "closed"source driver, it's not supported. Greetz Pete