Hallo Leonard, First of all, thannks for replying. It seems it has been partially solved, but I'm not too sure because after reboot the adsl-led stays amber and pppd call speedtch says that the network is temporarily unavailable. I haven't been rebooting again, but it works with wxp. It could very well be that there was indeed a connection problem, because wintendo didn't want to connect immediately as usual.
>Hallo Irene, > > > >>Since I was having downstream problems with the user space driver and >>the alcaudsl.sys firmware, I installed the latest Debian speedtouch >>packet and built in the kerneldriver (2.4.22). >> >> > > I have no experience with the kernel driver yet, but since nobody else >jumps in I thought I might give you at least some answers. > > > >>I'm using the firmware file from >>http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/download.en.html now. >> >> > > I have been using the KQD6P2.eni with the user mode driver for quite a >while now (http://download.ethomson.com/download/KQD6_R204.zip). > > > I've tried that one too >>Ping gives messages like unknown host, also when I use an IP >>address. >> >> > > Really? Or just time outs in the latter case? By the way, can you ping >both ends of the point to point connection? Have you tried traceroute and >seen how far a trace gets? > > Yes I did, I didn't get anything. > > >>I shut down the firewall, but no way. I put the modem_run options >>-m -f -s in the script, that didn't work either. Could it be that I should >>remove netfiltering modules from the kernel? >> >> > > If all chains are set to ACCEPT you should be ok. No need to remove the >netfiltering modules. > > > >>Iptables -L -n gives IP-addresses with only zero's. >> >> > > Don't forget the -v option, which shows to which interface the rules >apply. The zero's are just IP catch alls, its the "destination" >(ACCEPT/DROP) that matters. > > > I believe something like that was the problem. The destination did not match what I got from cybertools (net checking thingy for windoze). I checked every file having anything to do with the connection and firewalls, and to be /really/ sure I removed most of the firewalling stuff from the kernel. I checked and reset everything again with debconf, and voila! Suddenly I was online at 40 kbps! Obviously I had it all configured wrong, although I still don't understand how I was even able to connect before. >>Btw, it doesn't seem to be possible to go back to my original >>configuration, it just doesn't work anymore somehow. And I would still >>have the crappy downstream: it used to be around 15 kbps instead of the 42 I >>get sometimes with Wintendo, which I'm forcibly using now. >> >> > > The user mode driver gives me a 40KB/s ftp download speed (same modem as >you, same line specs, but using the KQD6P2.eni firmware). > > Although I don't feel I can pinpoint the problem you are having I hope >this is of some use. Maybe somebody with experience with the kernel mode >driver can jump in... > > I suppose the KQD6P2.eni should work now as well, but I really don't feel like changing around again since that caused me trouble getting the thing back to work again after all. For the first time, I have been able to even connect with the kernel mode driver and since the Debian-readme in the speedtouch packet claims that one is preferred, I suspect it is a good idea to stick to that. I noticed that if you follow the instructions in the readme and read the howto in the packet carefully, it should all work. There is also a Debian Sarge howto on sourceforge, but the stuff that it says about installing the right hotplug script in /etc/hotplug/usb/speedtch you should ignore. Thanks for the response anyway, I'm going to reboot and try again. Bye, Irene Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
