Hi Howard,
> I am very much a Linux novice and need help sorting out my intenet connection.
thats OK.
> I am running reasonably up-to-date hardware set to dual-boot Windows XP and
> Suse 10, installed from a Linux Format magazine DVD.
>
> My ISP is Wanadoo and I am subscribing to the basic 1 meg broadband service,
> which works OK in Windows.
>
> I have followed the instructions set out in the linux-usb speedtouch suse
> pages with the following results:
I think most of your problems are coming from the fact that the web-page
instructions are for previous
SuSE versions, and SuSE 10 is quite different to them.
> The grep command to identify the modem version produces no response. When I
> check /proc/bus/usb/devices I discover an empty document.
Does the file /proc/bus/usb/devices exist at all? I have heard that SuSE 10
"does not
mount usbfs by default" which if so means for you that the /proc/bus/usb/
directory will be
empty. Try the following: become root (the super user) and issue the command:
mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb/
Does /proc/bus/usb/devices suddenly spring into existence?
> As this is a recent installation I assume version 4 of the modem and continue
> on that basis.
You are most likely right about version 4.
> I have already downloaded the zip file and firmware extractor and the next
> set of instructions seems to run smoothly and creates
> speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin in /lib/firmware, although the copying
> instruction refers to a 'definition in
> /etc/hotplug.d/firmware/50-firmware.hotplug' which I am unable to find.
Probably SuSE 10 doesn't use hotplug at all (as you may have realized, I have
never used SuSE 10,
so I'm doing a lot of guessing here). This seems to be the fashion with recent
distributions -
they are all moving over to "udev" instead. If your /etc/hotplug directory
doesn't exist, or
contains nothing, then that means that indeed SuSE 10 has abandoned hotplug. I
wouldn't worry
about it too much: the other fashion is that everyone sticks firmware in
/lib/firmware there
days, so you did the right thing.
> I add my log-in details to both pap-secrets and chap-secrets, and on saving
> them there is a message 'ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(),
> pid = 7292, errno = 0'; on subsequent checking both of the two secrets files
> appear to have been correctly altered and saved.
This is definitely not a modem issue, so I won't address it, especially as it
seems harmless.
You could send SuSE a bug report about it of course.
> I follow the 'Connect on boot' instructions and again everything seems OK but
> when I reboot nothing much happens,
> certainly no green lights on the modem.
>
> I eventually find a log file and see within it the message 'The SpeedTouch
> firmware did not load' which is included in the bootscript.
>
> Where do I do now?
Run the dmesg command and search through it for messages from the modem,
for example you can do:
dmesg | less
(less is a utility that allows you to browse the output of dmesg),
and then search for lines containing speedtch. Or you can do:
dmesg | grep speedtch
Please send the output to the mailing list.
Ciao,
Duncan.
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