Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem??

[jwilson]

I've installed the new Linux driver for the SpeedTouch USB modem; however, I can't get the dang thing going.

In windows, my modem uses PPPoA. I've installed the RoaringPenguin PPPoE client but I'm not sure that I can use it.

Also, I've heard that I may have to put the modem in "bridging" mode. How in the world do you do that?

And how do you connect? Is it dependent on the connection client that you're using?

Thanks for any answers that may help!

[bdg1983]

I've seen ADSL documentation mentioned here http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/index.html-ssi

May help or did you see the link to http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ in the NHF on PPPoE?

[Badfrog66]

ah HA! There is a how-to on the LDP... :)
linkage:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/speedtouchusb.html

There also appears to be another on: http://www.linuxdude.co.uk/docs/Alcatel-Speedtouch-USB-mini-HOWTO/

I'm trying it out now.

[Badfrog66]

*SIGH* the latest in my saga:

I got errors trying to make ppp 2.4.0. Turns out I didn't have both packages from Alcatel, I was missing the user space app (guess I downloaded the kernel mod twice :o ). Their instructions say I need SARlib 0.2.1 source in the same tree as theirs. I have that as well. make works fine. When I try make install, I get:

*** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/usb/speedtch.o

help?