Thanks Nick for coming over last night and getting the modem going. I haven't been able to boot into Suse until forty minutes ago so I will have another go soon.
Thanks Volker for talking me through a Yast command line fix for the booting problems over the phone.
Deane
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CLUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: Deane's ADSl modem
Works now. For the record eciadsl (http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/modems.php?modem=27) supports the dynalink ALE070.
SuSE has a package, but notably it is 0.8 whereas the latest is 0.10 (yes in eciadsl world 0.10 > 0.8)
The SuSE package does not _appear_ to be integrated with yast. It does not seem to have hooks into the yast networking configuration stuff. At least I could not find it. There is no /etc/init.d script. I will try and investigate this further. However the native eciadsl config app worked fine (albeit ugly in a tcl-tk kinda way). The /usr/bin/startmodem script worked from a root terminal.
So Deane has the net on his SuSE box, and commented that he wouldn't need to boot windows again. Getting it running via a root terminal is a bit rough, but it works for the moment.
I also fount the .tar.bz2 file of the rute manual that he downloaded, showed him how to open it using the kde tools and drill down to index.html. He asked if he could make a shortcut so I drag/dropped the konqueror url bar to the desktop.
And I showed him where to find kmail, so come on lets see you send the list an email from linux Deane!
-- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
