On Dienstag, 29. Mai 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
> Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Somebody here with experiences with adsl-wanadoo-france-speedtouch?
> >
> > I wanted to help a friend to migrate from WinXP to Linux. Installation of
> > openSUSE 10.2 on his Dell went without any difficulty, but I can't get
> > this !*%# speedtouch "modem" to connect to wanadoo ADSL...
> >
> > The first problem is already that I don't understand, why a ADSL line
> > needs a "modem" and not a router or at least a ADSL Network Terminator.
> > Well, with XP it kind of works, so I guess wanadoo has a very special
> > kind of ADSL?
> >
> > So I went to
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Speedtouch_330
> >
> > (and not to http://en.opensuse.org/Speedtouch_330_PPPoE because the above
> > looked shorter and easier :-) )
> >
> > and went thru the steps described there. Finally I clicked KInternet to
> > connect. Here again I don't understand why I need KInternet, as I used
> > this last time some years ago with my analog modem... However, KInternet
> > recognized the "modem", tried to connect, and then the connection died
> > with the message "a modem hung up the phone (exit code 16)".
> >
> > So this is all I achieved and after googling for hours now I am competely
> > confused.
> >
> > I find different information and have no clue, which one I should follow,
> > like, for example, the said Suse-page says VPI/VCI Numbers are 8.67 while
> > http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/faq/index.html#q12 says it's 8.35.
>
> AIUI, this information is specific to your ADSL supplier and their
> equipment. You'll need to find Wanadoo France's technical configuration
> page, either with google et al, or phone their tech support to find out
> where it is (or get the information from them). Also have a look at the
> bumph sent to you when you signed up for your ADSL connection.
Hi Russel,
yes, this is what I thought, too. But the "technical service"-line-"helper"
said, he is "not educated for Linux", only knows where to click in Windows (I
guess, with "where to click" he ment the mouse button). What ever I asked
him: "I don't know", he doesn't know what VPI/VCI is, he couldn't even tell
me the IPs of their name servers ("in Windows everything is automatic, you
don't have to know anything"). Haha, I agree: this *is* indeed one of the
most important requirement to use Windows.
The "documentation" received with the "modem" also just includes a booklet
with all the nice little but useless images from windows and some from Mac.
But no data... And the website... have you ever looked at it? Don't do :-)
So, if anybody has an idea how I can go on, how to find out what is necessary
to find out... I am greatful for any hints.
regards
Daniel
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