-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Right, my problem is EXACTLY that. It works perfect in Win98 and I'm even running ICS for my home network for the night just until I can get back to regular NAT.
You sound like you're using the kernel space drivers. I have tried them as well as the user space, both without any luck. The lights are the same here too, both green -- the firmware is never uploaded so the ADSL light never flashes like it's suppose to. As for kernel compilation it should only be nesscary if your distribution kernel hasn't got the required pppoa/n_hdlc and speedtch modules included. As far I know the speedtch driver was included in 2.4.23, so pressuming you're running a recent distribution kernel (from Mandrake, or SuSE for instance) it should be fine. I wasn't aware you needed BOTH mgmt.o and alcudsl.sys. From my past experience, it's an either or situation. For arguments sakes however: http://download.ethomson.com/download/speedmgmt.tar.gz is the package which builds mgmt.o. My question about colour was simple. Two days ago my red Speedtouch 330 failed. I was told it was a reconised fault and given a new one on warrenty. Today it arrived, but it was silver. I plugged it in just as my previous one was and logically it should all start up fine -- seeing as they're the same product. That wasn't the case and as I am seeing now it's proving impossible to load the firmware from any of the free [libre] drivers. It just makes me wonder if they maybe have made slightest modification to the silver modems causing the drivers not to work. That's just a cloud in the sky though. This is a problem caused by Alactel -- that is for sure. If they were to document their hardware specifications and release the source code for their firmware I can assure them they'd get a much great response for their products. It's the way forward, they just need to embrace it. I'll keep hunting for a solution, and I hope you do too. We really need one of the developers to confirm one of our theories in order to make real progress. Talk to you later, Martin On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:53 pm, you wrote: > Hiya Martin > > Mine's silver but works ok under XP. Ironically, due to operateor > malfunction, > I now don't have XP installed and I decided not to hunt out my XP disks and > merely go full blown Linux to see how I coped. I'm not convinced the > colour has > anything to do with it. > > You'll understand the ironically fairly soon. > > I have downloaded speedbundle 1.00 and read the README docuementation at > the > top of the code tree which says do 'make' and then do 'make install'. Read > error messages and plug in modem to connect. > > So i did 'make' and I read and acted on the error messages, and I did > 'make install' > which got me to where I was earlier on - expecting to be able to access > the interenet > via my ADSL account. I poked around with ifcfg-dsl0 and .wvdialrc > with no avail. Apart from messing up my dial up connection for a bit > which really > caused me some worries. > > I even tried rebooting. Oh and disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, > (which resolutely stays green all the time on both ADSL and USB channels). > It did all the flickering as described in the faq when I first connected > it under XP. > > I toodled around the speedbundle tree. The HOWTO is meant to be in there > somewhere. > and that is what I was looking for. I found it in > firmware_loader/doc-linux/ > If you look in that directory there is an awful lot more info including a > howto > in 5 European languages. > > WHat I was able to gather, from the HOWTO is that the files mgmt.o and > alcaudsl.sys > are *required* to get the modem going. > > I haven't yet successfully located the mgmt.o file and would love to know > where it is. > > The alcaudsl.sys file is a Windows system driver and the only place you > can get it > is from the Windows software on the Thompson site ....... and you need > Windows to unbundle it > from the .exe they send you. > > Ho hum. > > Now I could go on various winges about having to have Windows to be able > to have ADSL via > the Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 on Linux. But I suppose it's the manufacturer > being inconvenient about > Linux and not providing the .sys file accordingly. > > Either way, I am sure the developers have done the best they are able to. > > I am however, quite confused about the documentation. The top level > README is fairly explicit > in saying, do make, do make install, plug in the modem and you are away. > > The HOWTO starts talking about kernel config ; which in my book seems to > be a bit more > than plugging in the modem. > > Which is right? > > So : > 1. if anyone knows the location of mgmt.o please would they let me know. > 2. Does anyone know if we have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel? > > Looking forward to hearing from someone > > Regards of the season :) > > Lesley > > > > > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:23:27 -0800, Martin Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I just received a new SpeedTouch 330 on warrenty (and to my supprise > > it's silver -- could this be an updated version?). Anyway, > > since I received it I've had the exact same problem as you and of yet > > have been unable to solve it. Have you had any luck? > > > > Is yours a silver model, or the regular red? If it's silver, could > > Alactel maybe have changed the firmware and forgot to tell us? I'm just > > plucking at straws really. > > > > I'm just about to hack alittle on the modem_run source, maybe I'll try > > the proprietry code in the source -- again, just plucking at straws. > > > > Let me know if you find anything and I will likewise. > > > > Martin > > > > (PS: Demon users shall unite...) - -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6d+K3bF34WXq1XsRAmYbAJ4qOwyelYGhhiAzPGKdaGRnOnlBTACgoiQo SNPy/AD7OlTPUcYB2JIh4QU= =ksJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
