Hello Martin and Gilles Rightio chaps :)
I downloaded VMWare and installed it. Installed my copy of XP within vmware. Found that the Alcatel CD is a CDFS format. Installed Alcatel on my virtual XP. Got the alcaudsl.sys file onto floppy and copied it over to a sensible place on the linux side of things. Tried modem run a few times, disconnected modem etc etc and kept on getting back to green on right and orange on left. Tried pppd call adsl to no avail Disconnected modem, rebooted, looked at dmesg and boot.msg and worried about a missing module. Reconnected modem while tailing messages and got the data attached below without running run_modem or pppd call adsl Really don't know if any of this helps you Martin. I hope it does. Note that all I used vmware for was to get the driver. I didn't even try the latest revisions from the Thompson Speedtouch site. Many thanks to you both, Martin and Gilles for a useful discussion. Am mercifully happy to have got my ADSL connection back :) Hope this helps people out there :) Happy Christmas Lesley Output to messages on replugging in the USB modem after reboot: Dec 25 05:57:47 linux kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2 Dec 25 05:57:47 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x6b9/0x4061) is not claimed by any active driver. Dec 25 05:57:51 linux kernel: usb.c: registered new driver speedtch Dec 25 05:57:51 linux insmod: Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/usb/speedtch.o Dec 25 05:57:51 linux insmod: Symbol version prefix '' Dec 25 05:57:51 linux modem_run[2451]: modem_run version 1.2-beta2 started by root uid 0 Dec 25 05:57:53 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Dec 25 05:57:53 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 len 512 ret -110 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cc1a46a0, burb cf2d9740 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cf2d9740, burb cc1a46a0 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cc1a46a0, burb cf2d9740 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2453]: cannot get config descriptor 0, No such device or address (6) Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cf2d9740, burb cc1a46a0 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cc1a46a0, burb cf2d9740 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2453]: cannot get config descriptor 0, No such device or address (6) Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cf2d9740, burb cc1a46a0 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cc1a46a0, burb cf2d9740 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2453]: cannot get config descriptor 0, No such device or address (6) Dec 25 05:57:54 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2452]: cannot get config descriptor 0, No such device or address (6) Dec 25 05:57:54 linux last message repeated 3 times Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: ENXIO 80000280, flags 0, urb cc1a4aa0, burb cf2d9740 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 2 rqt 128 rq 6 len 147 ret -6 Dec 25 05:57:54 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2452]: cannot get config descriptor 0, No such device or address (6) Dec 25 05:58:08 linux modem_run[2451]: ADSL synchronization has been obtained Dec 25 05:58:08 linux modem_run[2451]: ADSL line is up (576 kbit/s down | 288 kbit/s up) Dec 25 05:58:09 linux kernel: usbdevfs: process 2527 (modem_run) did not claim interface 0 before use Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. Dec 25 05:58:14 linux kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Dec 25 05:58:14 linux kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: PPPoATM plugin_init Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:0.38 Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: pppd 2.4.2b3 started by root, uid 0 Dec 25 05:58:14 linux kernel: atm_connect (TX: cl 1,bw 0-0,sdu 16386; RX: cl 1,bw 0-0,sdu 1502,AAL 5) Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 25 05:58:14 linux pppd[2532]: Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.38 Dec 25 05:58:20 linux pppd[2532]: CHAP authentication succeeded: CHAP authentication success, unit 649 Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
