Recommendations for network card and ADSL modem
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem. Short of throwing it out the window, I can't do anything with it other than initialise it. I tried PPPoA and got nothing beyond LCP timeouts. I tried PPPoE (with a downloaded br2684ctl) and though I get "ifconfig nas0" returning an ethernet address etc., the "pppd nas0 &" call complains about nas0 being unknown. Ho hum. I give up. I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router) plus network card. I only have a standalone PC at home. There are plans for a network but that probably won't happen this year. For any UK-ers, I'm in Surrey so I'd also be interested in knowing where I could walk in and buy the equipment (I try to avoid PC World if at all possible). cheers, Peter
On Friday 17 January 2003 9:48 pm, Peter John Cameron wrote:
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router) plus network card. I only have a standalone PC at home. There are plans for a network but that probably won't happen this year.
Peter
Hi Peter Bought a D-Link DFE-550TX card this week form Dabs .com. It works a treat out of the box. All the best Paul
Peter John Cameron wrote:
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem. Short of throwing it out the window, I can't do anything with it other than initialise it. I tried PPPoA and got nothing beyond LCP timeouts. I tried PPPoE (with a downloaded br2684ctl) and though I get "ifconfig nas0" returning an ethernet address etc., the "pppd nas0 &" call complains about nas0 being unknown. Ho hum. I give up.
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router) plus network card. I only have a standalone PC at home. There are plans for a network but that probably won't happen this year.
For any UK-ers, I'm in Surrey so I'd also be interested in knowing where I could walk in and buy the equipment (I try to avoid PC World if at all possible).
cheers, Peter
Peter 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? Steve
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
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
Hello I bought the Zyxel Prestige 645 Router/Modem from dsl-warehouse.co.uk. Got it the next day. I talk to it using telnet. Not a single problem with it. It does NAT for all my home computers-> Solaris, Windows and Linux. Cheers Peter John Cameron wrote:
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem. Short of throwing it out the window, I can't do anything with it other than initialise it. I tried PPPoA and got nothing beyond LCP timeouts. I tried PPPoE (with a downloaded br2684ctl) and though I get "ifconfig nas0" returning an ethernet address etc., the "pppd nas0 &" call complains about nas0 being unknown. Ho hum. I give up.
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router) plus network card. I only have a standalone PC at home. There are plans for a network but that probably won't happen this year.
For any UK-ers, I'm in Surrey so I'd also be interested in knowing where I could walk in and buy the equipment (I try to avoid PC World if at all possible).
cheers, Peter
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, info just had to get this off his chest:
Hello
I bought the Zyxel Prestige 645 Router/Modem from dsl-warehouse.co.uk. Got it the next day. I talk to it using telnet. Not a single problem with it. It does NAT for all my home computers-> Solaris, Windows and Linux.
Yup, I'v got a Zyxel Prestige 650RI here, works without a glitch since I installed it in November (online 24/7). Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.
On Friday 17 January 2003 21:48, Peter John Cameron wrote: Hi,
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem.
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router)
I have a Draytek Vigor2600 (£140 from dsl-warehouse), and can't recommend it enough. Even though it is slightly more expensive than other adsl routers, the built in features are the best I have seen (built in firewall with NAT, DoS, DDos, built in VPN, IP forwarding, dynmic dns support etc etc.) Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 7:53am up 6 days, 13:42, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.11, 0.07
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 January 2003 10:48 pm, Phil Shrimpton wrote:
On Friday 17 January 2003 21:48, Peter John Cameron wrote:
Hi,
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem.
I'd like some recommendations for a decent external ADSL modem (or router)
Has annyone mentioned the open source driver for ADSL? (Ive only just joined the list) http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ Because I too had lots of problems following the howto to try and get the thing working. Theopen source version works a different way and requires no kernal compiles with the standard Suse8.0 kernal to work (which judgine from your sig you use). The instructions look just as hairy but they aren't at all. I got it sorted in about 30 mins, and it would have been quicker if I paid more attention to wghat I was doing. There are some scripts you put in /etc/ppp with some values that have to be changed and I didn't pay attention to them at first. - -- Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj4tMYgACgkQFv+mlSC+6l4segCgs6yKAXWyKJV7WhuOyjSj+Pv7 Pj4AoIhtdOFeAVwht6jnaixPorCvSeRh =yGOw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:39, Richard Fletcher wrote: Hi,
After nearly three weeks of trying, I've given up with the alcatel speedtouch modem.
Has annyone mentioned the open source driver for ADSL? (Ive only just joined the list) http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/
I have used those successfully for a year or so before I got my router. The main reason I got the router was so I did not have to maintain my own DCHP/firewall/DNS/VPN etc. etc. I have found my connection speeds are about 25% higher with the router that they were with the usb modem, which was a bonus. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 3:38pm up 7 days, 21:27, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.14, 0.04
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