Thanks Andre and Duncan: Andre> pppoatm.so is trying to modprobe pppoatm. The error message is harmless.
Perhaps the error message is not the symptom of the correct problem then? I did see such a message in the past that was harmless on my old 2.4.26 system. Definitely the computer would not connect to the modem, then I only changed loadable module support (y) and the Generic USB ATM/DSL core I/O support (USB_ATM) Alcatel Speedtouch USB support (USB_SPEEDTOUCH) to Module, then it worked (after recompiling the kernel etc) ... but it turns out it is only working when it calls modem_run which was still in the hotplug from before :? if I remove that script from the hotplug folder it will not connect. So something funny is going on. I have not yet tried the patch below since I don't actually have it! Also, I was using the ppp located in the speedbundle , 2.4.2b ; then I tried getting 2.4.3 from http://www.samba.org/ppp/download.html and patching with the patch at http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/download/pppoatm.diff but the patch failed. I fixed it manually though and compiled it correctly. I think the patch is out of date for 2.4.3 (specifically the makefile that generates pppoatm.so) me> Jul 13 00:33:54 spider modem_run[2139]: Error reading interrupts Duncan> Does the attached patch help? -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar -- -- Type: text/x-diff -- File: mr.diff The attached patch was stripped by the list server! Is it on the web or can you email it to mee at r dot atwood at imperial dot ac dot uk? Or just paste as text into a message if not tooo long. thanks I am not at home just now, so I won't try and remember the exact messages, but I double checked the location specified in firmware.agent and the same as the default for slackware, and the same as that reported by make install of firmware-extractor. The log message said it was searching for speedtch-1.bin.0.00 then .0 then .bin but did not specify where it was actually looking; is this easy to find out? firmware.html> The default seems to be /lib/firmware but it could be anywhere. On Slackware 10 (for instance) it's /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
