Hello, bonjour... I have a green (rev 0 ) modem, and it appeared to be working fine with my old motherboard and linux 2.4.26 with the speedbundle collection of patches & things.
I got a new motherboard and processor , asus k8s-mx and semperon-3000 . I could not run my old kernel due to some incompatable options, but even rebuilding that kernel with the same .config (minus the incompatible options), the modem refused to load the firmware. I decided it should be easier to follow the instructions at linux-usb.org and configure a brand-new kernel with the builtin drivers for this system, however it did not work. No matter how carefully I checked the conviguration it always failed to find the firmware ( it is located in the correct place pointed to by the hotplug firmware-agent script) For one think, it simply would not work at all unless pppoatm was compiled as a module, despite the advice, which I agree with, to compile everything straight in to avoid module headaches. Something, somewhere is simply checking for the pppoatm in modules and exiting if it is not there. Anyone know where this is? It may be something leftover from the previous speedbundle. Now I have got it to work by using modem-run to load my old (one file) firmware , however I get a lot of errors in the log file and occasional gaps in communication that might be related. What's going on here? Every minute or so I experience a couple of seconds of dead time for example when typing this message. Sorry my French is not good enough to understand the previous message about 'Error reading interrupts' I hope it has the solution and someone will be kind enough to explain to me. THanks Robert (log file excerpt) Jul 13 00:33:45 spider modem_run[2139]: Error reading interrupts Jul 13 00:33:54 spider last message repeated 470 times Jul 13 00:33:54 spider pppd[2140]: CHAP authentication succeeded: CHAP authentic ation accepted Jul 13 00:33:54 spider modem_run[2139]: Error reading interrupts Jul 13 00:33:54 spider last message repeated 2 times Jul 13 00:33:54 spider pppd[2140]: local IP address [censored] Jul 13 00:33:54 spider pppd[2140]: remote IP address [censored] Jul 13 00:33:54 spider pppd[2140]: primary DNS address [censored] Jul 13 00:33:54 spider pppd[2140]: secondary DNS address [censored] Jul 13 00:33:54 spider modem_run[2139]: Error reading interrupts Jul 13 00:34:25 spider last message repeated 1613 times Jul 13 00:35:26 spider last message repeated 2801 times Jul 13 00:36:27 spider last message repeated 2943 times Jul 13 00:37:28 spider last message repeated 2808 times Jul 13 00:38:29 spider last message repeated 2942 times Jul 13 00:39:30 spider last message repeated 2734 times Jul 13 00:40:32 spider last message repeated 3029 times Jul 13 00:41:33 spider last message repeated 3185 times Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
