Sylvain - you are a star - thanks for your help.
Just to let yo know exactly what I did - (and for the benefit of the rest of
the people here too) :-) And additionally I didn't even have to compile a
thing. First I used your leink to:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ed.gomez/SpeedTouch-HOWTO-en.html
1. Installed Redhat 7.1 from CDROM (customised with all the extra
development utilities etc). 2. After reboot - immediately upgraded to the
2.4.3- 12 kernel ((ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/7.1/en/os/i386/)
(downloded the kernel, BOOT and SOURCE rpms. installed the SOURCE and BOOT
rpms with the -Uvh option, then the kernel with the -ivh option)
3. updated lilo to include the new kernel (which the rpm does not do :-) as
per usual.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-12
label=L3
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
4. Followed instriuctions on the website from top down - but I skipped any
parts that mentioned patching - it all seems to be in this kernel already.
And that was fine -
One tihng I had to make sure was that the hotplugging was working - so I had
to upgrade that from the sourcefourge website - It installs stuff in the
init.d dir to start it up at boot time - and so far I have no need to run
modprobe commands manually - the hotplug loads them it seems on boot. :-) (I
had to use the --force option on this rpm)
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/sourceforge/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_04_24-1
_6.x.noarch.html
(but there are newer ones out there (not tried out yet for me) :-)
The only thing I have is the following in an executable file called start in
root - which starts up the final part of the connection and initialises ppp0
- noticed I hashed out the modprobes after the hotplug update. I will
probably move the last two lines to the rc.local file when I am sure all is
well :-)
# modprobe ppp_generic
# modprobe ppp_synctty
# modprobe n_hdlc
modem_run -m -f /usr/local/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o
pppd call adsl
Hope this helps you people out there - this adsl business is a real hit and
miss.
Oh - one note as well::: I was doing this on a portable with one USB port -
apparently people with desktops may find it does not work. I have to help
someone else setup - if it works the same way - I will let you all know.
Cheers,
Ronnie
-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvain T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 31 August 2001 17:04
To: 'Ronnie van de Laak' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Subject: Re: [speedtouch] Error with ATM_SETBACKEND :: Speedtouch ADSL usb
modem on Redhat
Hi
It seems taht you're running alcatels drivers...
This mail list is used for open source drivers
please take a look at :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ed.gomez/
where you will find a howto end links to benoit's drivers
cya
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