[newbie-it] Installazione di un driver

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:31:12 -0800

Ho scaricato da rete dei file spacciati per driver linux del modem ADSL Speed Touch USB dal sito dell'Alcatel;
si chiamano "COPYING", COPYING.GPL", "INSTALL", "MAKEFILE" e "SPEEDTOUCH.C".
Sbirciati dentro da Windows i primi due parlano di diritti di copiatura, il terzo sono le istruzioni di installazione (che vi riporto di seguito) il quarto e il quinto sono di vere e proprie istruzioni.
Trasferiti su Linux il quarto ha il simboletto di un ingranaggio (non so ancora cosa significhi) e il quinto ha il simboletto forse di una pagina (?!?).
Qualcuno sa spiegarmi in modo un po' meno complicato come devo procedere ?
faccio seguire le istruzioni (a mio avviso troppo laboriose) dell'Alcatel:
 
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Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Driver Kernel Module

1. Introduction
This package contains the kernel module part of the
Alcatel SpeedTouch USB driver. You will also need the management application.
(the Management Application can be found at http://www.alcateldsl.com/ )
This pacakge is distributed under the GPL, see COPYING and COPYING.GPL for extra info.

2. Kernel Configuration
This driver is only supported on kernel 2.4.1 and higher.
You will need to install this kernel with the following options enabled:
 
- Code maturity level options / Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
- USB support / Support for USB
- USB support / Preliminary USB device filesystem
- Networking options / Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) (EXPERIMENTAL)
 
The first option is necessary to be able to enable ATM.
When you upgrade your kernel, do not forget to upgrade your modutils!
(You will need version 2.4.2 or newer)
The modutils package can be found at:
 
 

3. Compiling the module
You will need SARLib-0.2.1 to compile this module.
You can download this library at:
 
 
Extract the SARLib in the same directory as this package.
Make sure your new 2.4.1+ kernel is in /usr/src/linux/
If it is not the case, you can also modify the path in the Makefile
Then type:
 
  make
 
then become root and type:
 
  make install
 
To be able to use this driver, you will have to install more than these two
packages. After installation of this package (and plugging in the modem) your
system will feature an ATM device.
You will need to install PPPoA or PPPoE separately.
 

4. PPPoE
Installing PPPoE is the easiest.
First, install rfc 2684 Bridged ethernet support. This will allow you to do
Ethernet over ATM.
You can download this software from
 
 
Follow the instructions on this site. (the TUTORIAL file)
If you want this to be included in your startup you can add the appropriate
line in the /etc/hotplug/usb/speedtouch file after the startup of the
management application.
 
When you have your bridging ethernet interface (nas0) you can install a
PPPoE client. For example, I used roaring penguin PPPoE.
 
  http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
 
The version 2.8 supports kernel-level PPPoE support too. (see webpage)
Do not forget to provide 'nas0' as interface name to the rp-pppoe config.
 

5. PPPoA
This is more complex. Save for installing a kernel patch, you will also have
to download the pppd source and patch that. For more information on this,
see:
 
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ringrazio e saluto
Marco
 
 

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