I'm online in my Linux box finally! One can't even understand how much frustration I had to go through, but it all seems to be working fine and well now.
Why? I think this is important to note and update the linux-usb guide appropriately. Frustrated of not finding anyone who could help me solve my problem, while knowing that I had followed every single step of the linux-usb guide properly, led me to look into ubuntuforums.org where I found many, many people with SpeedTouch problems. I hate this bloody modem. However, every reply to anyone's problem seemed to be nothing but a link to the ubuntu guide at linux-usb, even when people said they had already followed those instructions. There was also a few mentions of a new program that would make the guide's steps all the much easier for the average joe. I didn't look into it. The only gold nugget came from another frustrated user who managed to solve his problem by himself and then post the solution. He installed some library called libatm1, which apparently made his connection work. Oh really, I thought. Well, my ISP uses PPPoE, but I guess it won't hurt to try it. I downloaded the libatm1_2.4.1-17_i386.deb from ubuntu repositories, logged back into this machine, installed the library, and restarted. Voilá! It's working and working very well. And that's all I wanted! I don't know what this libatm1 does exactly and why it's needed. I'm not sure either if it was available in earlier versions of Ubuntu and got removed for 7.0x. All I know is that after installing it, my connection started working. This is something important to consider to at least make some sort of mention in the linux-usb guide. OK, thank you and good bye. Ivo Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
