[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-12 Thread Ed Vaessen
> > Hi Ed, > >> A search through the WindowsXP directory brought to light that the very >> old file alcaudsl.sys is still there. Not a suprise as I used the >> installation disk from 06-06-2002 to load the speedtouch driver under >> WindowsXP after I had installed WindowsXP. So I suppose it is the

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Ed, > A search through the WindowsXP directory brought to light that the very > old file alcaudsl.sys is still there. Not a suprise as I used the > installation disk from 06-06-2002 to load the speedtouch driver under > WindowsXP after I had installed WindowsXP. So I suppose it is the one used

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Giampaolo, > I see. Lacking firmware documentation seems a common problem with these > devices, isn't it? for these devices everything has been reverse engineered. Ciao, Duncan. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:speedtouch-requ...@ml.free.fr?subje

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Ed Vaessen
I had to switch to WindowsXP te maintain a normal connection. Under OpenSuSE the line is going down nearly every minute this evening. So far the advantages of xs4all with their upgrade that I never asked for... Ed > > Hi Duncan, > >> > Duncan, what about adding speed, signal strength, agreed AD

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Hi Duncan, > > Duncan, what about adding speed, signal strength, agreed ADSL > standard and > > bins composition to the driver's procfs file? > > Unfortunately I don't know how to get anything except the speed. The > speed is already reported to the ATM layer. I see. Lacking firmware documenta

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Ed Vaessen
> > Hi Ed, > >> pop up every 10 minutes. What is strange is that this behavior does not >> happen under WindowsXP. Distributions like OpenSuSE however suffer from >> this problem. Ubuntu 9.04 is even worse. Under Unbuntu, the modem is >> more >> busy with synchronizing than with serving my connect

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Giampaolo, > Duncan, what about adding speed, signal strength, agreed ADSL standard and > bins composition to the driver's procfs file? Unfortunately I don't know how to get anything except the speed. The speed is already reported to the ATM layer. Ciao, Duncan. Liste de diffusion modem A

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> My provider, xs4all in the Netherlands, has served me well for 8 years. > Since last summer however, after they changed the properties of the > connection (it was upgraded to 6112 kb/s down, 832 kb/s up) things got > problematic. > The first is that the synchronizing of my speedtouch 330 modem (

[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch line going down under Linux

2009-10-11 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Ed, > pop up every 10 minutes. What is strange is that this behavior does not > happen under WindowsXP. Distributions like OpenSuSE however suffer from > this problem. Ubuntu 9.04 is even worse. Under Unbuntu, the modem is more > busy with synchronizing than with serving my connection. perhap