Re: Newbie with modem installation problems
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:17:59 +1100, Bruce Ward <wardb@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Have been trying unsuccessfully to configure my ADSL connection with a
> Speedtouch Home modem, connected through an SMC USB connector. It is all
> working fime in Win 98 and some trial installations I did with red Hat and
> Mandrake both detected and set up the modem correctly. I would rather use
> Debian, but things just don't seem to work.
>
> The Mandrake setup seems to be using the Pegasus and Red Hat installations
> seemed to use the Pegasus USB drivers.
>
> I have installed hotplug and the pegasus drivers. Hotplug seems to be
> detecting the USB adapter OK and it lsusb shows an appropriate Ethernet
> device. It does not seem to be associating this device with the Pegasus
> drivers, and I don't have any eth0 device available.
>
> Anyone give me some clues on how to go about this task?
>
IIRC there are two ways to use Speedtouch modem, via kernel driver or
using userspace driver. For the first way, you need a recent kernel,
2.6.5 and above should be enough, for the second way there's a package
on Debian, it's called "speedtouch". You probably need some other
libraries like PPPoATM or similar, you can find them all neatly
packaged.
With a 30 seconds google search i've found a couple of links:
http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/
http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/
http://cp4218.sourceforge.net/
Andrea
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