> I was not able to work an alcatel speedtouch 330 in any platform even though I had bought it that it
> was compatible with Linux.
After many hours studying the speedtouch modem problem I discovered that the variables simply are too many:
a) pppoe or pppoa,
b) LLC encapsulation or some other protocol,
c) country specific VPI and VCI,
d) version specific modem firmware,
e) user space driver or kernel space driver.
The major problem is a consequence of the fact that most of the described setups work assuming some kind of french like standard, i.e., pppoa and kernel space driver.
And... Linux kernel comes with a kernel space driver and some type of hotplug code that assumes just that: a "speedtch" kernel loaded driver.
The answer is too simple... but I spent almost a year do solve it
Under Debian (Knoppix) it was a hard one to solve. Knoppix, Kanotix, Kurumin, etc. all claimed to be fully compatible and working with the the speedtouch adsl modem. But as many of us learned they were wrong.
But the answer is deceptively simple:
1. Uninstall the speedtch kernel module. By removing the speedtch.o file in /lib/modules/(kernelversion)/kernel/drivers/usb, or using modeprobe to take it down, or list the module's name in /etc/hotplug/blacklist (why is linux so confusing and full of alternatives and/or different ways to do the same thing?)
2. Just ignore the "official" and "official-like" drivers either kernel space or user space that originate from:
2.1. http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/download/index.html
2.2. http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/
3. Download and install the free RP-PPPoE (Roaring Penguin) package from http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_rp-pppoe.php
4. Enter your country VPI, VCI and pppoX (pppoe or pppoa), your username and password.
You should get a good connection... or not. Because, even if you did it perfectly you should know that all the ADSL speedtouch have unsolved problems under Linux. For instance, if the line goes down, usually it is of no use to try to bring it up using a script based in the modem_run command... but there are many more.
So, after all this trouble I just got out and bought a €50 ADSL router (a noname unit based in the Conexant CX82310 chipset) and... hey, presto, no more problems whatsoever.
> I use gelecek Linux, (a Turkish Fedora clone), Mandrake 10 community, Knoppix 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 Care2X(Knoppix 3.3)
For Medicine and Surgery and only read and use books and magazines made under some very specific type of methodology: the scientific method.
For Linux I tend to do the same: I only use Debian based distributions.
But I started with Red Hat, was briefly on Suse, returned to Red Hat.
When Red Hat abandoned the "non paying" I, like many people, just moved to Debian.
Since then we tried Gentoo (they have very good linux manuals!!), Slackware, Mandrake... you name it.
But just keep returning to the beautifully simple Debian based Knoppix.
I keep trying. I tried the Knoppix based Kurumin, Kanotix and Mepis. But nothing beats the original Knoppix.
And no... I am not an informaticist. I am just a plastic surgeon.
I have an informatics background quite similar to yours.
But I started with a "computer thing" called Sinclair ZX81... then assembler and basic, then Sinclair ZX Spectrum, then I bought an ugly thing with a green fosforous screen called an IBM PC XT, which costed the astronomical amount of US $3500!!!
Oh, but it had a whooping 8088 CPU, 256K ram (or was it 128K ?), and a 5MB full height hard drive!!! It was expensive, but with all that power it sure would last for the rest of my life!!!! How ignorant I was of the Moore law...
Now I have a beast that makes almost no noise (21dB total!!!), is very good at heating the house in the winter, likes to have the latest overclocked AMD CPU, gigas of RAM... and and eats 160GB Seagate Barracudas HD's for breakfast.
A warm welcome to you Bulent,
J. Antas
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