[speedtouch] Modem firmware seems to be working fine, but I cannot access the Internet
Hello, I do noticed that this list has few active users, but hope someone finds time to offer me some needed help. I'm stuck with a SpeedTouch Modem, and I can only access the Internet through Windows. That's really annoying, because I mostly work on my Linux box. Anyway, I followed every instruction on the linux-usb web site for the Ubuntu distro and all seemed well, but unfortunately I still have no connection. I went over all steps again, I'm using the correct firmware, and even the syslog seems to point out that the firmware is working fine and dandy. My ISP information is also correct. Username, password. The only thing I'm not sure is about VPI and VCI since the information on the table[1] may be wrong or outdated. My ISP is Clix from Portugal. I'm using an Ubuntu-based distro (a mix of Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) with a 2.6.20 low-latency kernel. Here's some command output: $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 06b9:4061 Alcatel Telecom SpeedTouch ISDN or ADSL Modem $ cat /proc/net/atm/sp* Speed Touch 330 (usb-:00:1f.2-2) MAC: 00:90:d0:b5:cf:71 AAL5: tx 0 ( 0 err ), rx 0 ( 0 err, 0 drop ) Line up $ dmesg | tail [ 70.148005] ATM dev 0: ADSL line is up (7616 kb/s down | 416 kb/s up) Doesn't everything seem well? And yet, I can't do even a simple ping. Oh, and I have another question. If I actually get a decent modem, will any of the steps I did to make my SpeedTouch work affect the new modem, making it not work? Your help is appreciated, Ivo [1] http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/faq/index.html#q12 Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[speedtouch] Re: Modem firmware seems to be working fine, but I cannot access the Internet
On 7/20/07, Duncan Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try pppd call speedtch debug Done. It doesn't seem to have output that much information, though. Among a bunch of GNOME errors, which is funny because I don't even use GNOME, there was this: Jul 20 23:36:52 localhost pppd[5509]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Jul 20 23:36:52 localhost pppd[5509]: In file /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch: unrecognized option 'nas0' This is exactly what the console reported, as well. There was nothing else under syslog. I do not know what nas0 is. I also have debug turned on in the speedtch file, but it seems not to give me any useful information. Should I remove the nas0 option? What else can I say? The modem's working fine in Windows, or I wouldn't be able to send this message. Bloody winmodems. Also, an interesting fact, I noticed that the resolv.conf file was empty and just added the OpenDNS servers, which are the only ones I know by memory. Now, any attempt to ping or opening up a site takes a minute before reporting a failure. Before doing this, failure reports were instant. -Ivo Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[speedtouch] Re: [SOLVED] Modem firmware seems to be working fine, but I cannot access the Internet
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]
[speedtouch] I can't get the modem to work with a Fedora Core-based system. Any suggestion?
Hi list, I've one of those damned SpeedTouch 330 modems (firmware 2.00) and I already got it up running perfectly fine in my desktop which runs Ubuntu. But sometimes I need Internet access in my laptop, so I decided to try to install the modem there. It's a Fedora-based system which does not run on a x86 architecture (it's an AMD Geode). I have followed all the instructions back in http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/index.html but as far as I can see the firmware isn't loading. The red light starts on boot, then both green lights turn on and stay like that, but the right one never flickers. dmesg | less doesn't reveal anything out of ordinary and, since the Fedora tutorial does not use a script like the dial one back in Ubuntu, I don't even know how to manually start the connection and look for error messages. Should I just give up? Also of note is that this bare-bones Fedora distro is missing some stuff; for instance, I had to install pppd through a RPM. Maybe it's also possible I'm missing something that would load the firmware, but if yes I have no idea what. -Ivo Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
