Hiya Martin Mine's silver but works ok under XP. Ironically, due to operateor malfunction, I now don't have XP installed and I decided not to hunt out my XP disks and merely go full blown Linux to see how I coped. I'm not convinced the colour has anything to do with it.
You'll understand the ironically fairly soon. I have downloaded speedbundle 1.00 and read the README docuementation at the top of the code tree which says do 'make' and then do 'make install'. Read error messages and plug in modem to connect. So i did 'make' and I read and acted on the error messages, and I did 'make install' which got me to where I was earlier on - expecting to be able to access the interenet via my ADSL account. I poked around with ifcfg-dsl0 and .wvdialrc with no avail. Apart from messing up my dial up connection for a bit which really caused me some worries. I even tried rebooting. Oh and disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, (which resolutely stays green all the time on both ADSL and USB channels). It did all the flickering as described in the faq when I first connected it under XP. I toodled around the speedbundle tree. The HOWTO is meant to be in there somewhere. and that is what I was looking for. I found it in firmware_loader/doc-linux/ If you look in that directory there is an awful lot more info including a howto in 5 European languages. WHat I was able to gather, from the HOWTO is that the files mgmt.o and alcaudsl.sys are *required* to get the modem going. I haven't yet successfully located the mgmt.o file and would love to know where it is. The alcaudsl.sys file is a Windows system driver and the only place you can get it is from the Windows software on the Thompson site ....... and you need Windows to unbundle it from the .exe they send you. Ho hum. Now I could go on various winges about having to have Windows to be able to have ADSL via the Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 on Linux. But I suppose it's the manufacturer being inconvenient about Linux and not providing the .sys file accordingly. Either way, I am sure the developers have done the best they are able to. I am however, quite confused about the documentation. The top level README is fairly explicit in saying, do make, do make install, plug in the modem and you are away. The HOWTO starts talking about kernel config ; which in my book seems to be a bit more than plugging in the modem. Which is right? So : 1. if anyone knows the location of mgmt.o please would they let me know. 2. Does anyone know if we have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel? Looking forward to hearing from someone Regards of the season :) Lesley On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:23:27 -0800, Martin Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received a new SpeedTouch 330 on warrenty (and to my supprise > it's silver -- could this be an updated version?). Anyway, > since I received it I've had the exact same problem as you and of yet > have been unable to solve it. Have you had any luck? > > Is yours a silver model, or the regular red? If it's silver, could > Alactel maybe have changed the firmware and forgot to tell us? I'm just > plucking at straws really. > > I'm just about to hack alittle on the modem_run source, maybe I'll try > the proprietry code in the source -- again, just plucking at straws. > > Let me know if you find anything and I will likewise. > > Martin > > (PS: Demon users shall unite...) > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
