[speedtouch] Re: Modem Revision?

[Andrew Benton]

Duncan Sands wrote:
> Sorry, it should have read:
>   /sys/bus/usb/drivers/speedtch/(device_name)/version
> however I just noticed that the version field is not there, strange...
> As for /proc/bus/usb/devices being empty, are you sure you have a
> host controller driver loaded, like uhci-hcd?

I think the problem with /proc/bus/usb/devices being empty was a bug in 
gedit - it opens the file as an empty page. However, if I use cat 
/proc/bus/usb/devices the contents show up as they should. So the 
solution is to mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb and then use cat or 
grep. Thanks for your help

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[speedtouch] Re: Modem Revision?

[Andrew Benton]

Duncan Sands wrote:
> You just need to mount usbfs, eg:
>   mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb
> then have a look in /proc/bus/usb/devices.
> You can also look in /sys/bus/usb/speedtch/(device_name)/version

That's a step forward, there is now something in /proc/bus/usb. However, 
the file /proc/bus/usb/devices is blank. Also, /sys/bus/usb contains 
only two folders, devices and drivers.

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[speedtouch] Modem Revision?

[Andrew Benton]

Hello world,
Is there a way to get the kernel to say what revision of Speedtouch is 
attached it? Perhaps by reading a file in /proc or /sys? It used to have 
details in /proc/bus/usb/devices but that file doesn't seem to be there 
anymore. I think it disappeared with the 2.6.16 kernel?
So, does anyone know of a command to find out what revision of modem is 
connected to a usb port?

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[speedtouch] Re: pppd and knoppix

[Andrew Benton]

Maerk Mark wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a linux newbie who's trying to get speedtouch working on GNU Musix 0.5 
> distro, which is based upon Knoppix (info: 
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=musix) - it has been installed 
> and works like a dream on my laptop. I've tried searching the FAQ and archive 
> but still a bit lost, so please bear with me.
> 
> Having read the notes on the site I have done the firmware-extraction and 
> installation, and my system now appears to be 'speedtouch aware',

If the firmware is loading into the modem then the next stage is to 
configure pppd. Put your details into /etc/ppp/chap.secrets like so

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "*" "password"

Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the username your ISP gave you and change 
password for the password you got when you set up your account with your 
ISP. Don't miss out the spaces in the " "*" " bit.

Create the file /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch and put some configuration 
details into it like so

noipdefault
defaultroute
user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
noauth
updetach
usepeerdns
plugin pppoatm.so
0.38

Change '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' so it's the same as whatever you put in 
/etc/ppp/chap.secrets
Now, (as root) run pppd

pppd call speedtch

If it doesn't work, save a copy of the output. Also, let us see any 
relevant error messages in the system logs.

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[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch 330 Rev 4 and Fedorace Core 5

[Andrew Benton]

James Beeston wrote:
> /proc/net/atm doesn't exist. And I can't find a module for atm in
> /lib/modules - I think that's where I looked, and there was a load of
> modules in the directory structure under there and a net subdirectory which
> I looked in but no atm looking modules. I'm guessing FC5 comes without ATM
> support built into the kernel or as a module.

Fedora Core 5 comes with ATM support

/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/kernel/net/atm/pppoatm.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.ko

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[speedtouch] Re: SpeedTouch 330

[Andrew Benton]

David Holness wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a SpeedTouch 330 rev 4.0 modem and am attempting to connect to Virgin
> Net in the UK using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper).
> 
> I've followed  the 'how tos' but have had no success.
> 
> The problem I think is that the modem firmware is not uploaded at boot time.
> Running dmesg reveals no "ADSL line is up" message.  Running sudo pppd call
> speedtch gives "no such device".
> 
> I don't see any more than a brief red flicker from the LH LED, but I don't
> know what that tells me as exactly the same happens under Windows (98) and
> that works fine.  The system log shows that speedtch-1 & 2 were found.

Did you use the correct firmware? What do you get when you run the commands

ls -l /lib/firmware

For a revision 4, speedtch-1.bin should be 935 bytes and speedtch-2.bin 
should be 775545

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[speedtouch] Re: Firmware problem

[Andrew Benton]

Damian wrote:
> Hi Andy, im using 2.4.27

Sorry, I can't remember how to get the modem working with a 2.4 kernel.

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[speedtouch] Re: Firmware problem

[Andrew Benton]

Damian wrote:
> Hi, i'm really new to linux, and trying to install the SpeedTouch330 USB 
> Modem on my Knoppix/debian distribution. (pppoe)
> 
> The first thing i did was to follow the steps here (steve parker) 
> http://steve-parker.org/speedtouchconf/troubleshooting.shtml
> 
> and it "kind of" worked. I mean, i remember the firmware loaded and dsl line 
> got up, tough it didnt connect because of a problem with pppoe. I asked the 
> author and he said he couldn't test it with pppoe so i decided to go another 
> way.
> 
> Then, i followed the steps here: 
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html and realised the 
> firmware doesnt even load. 
> 
> Ive tried with 
> 
> rev4fw.zip -> (the one that worked with steve parker's script)
> ZZZL_3.012
> 
> And both lights stay solid green during boot. I have to say ive tried some 
> other ways that seem to have made things even worse (now steve parker's 
> script doesnt even work)

What kernel are you using? - you can find out with the command uname -r
Are you using udev or the older hotplug scripts?

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> Andrew
> 
> A very good morning to you from the world of Linux!

Good news. Well done!

> Just on a passing note, are there any particular anti-virus and firewall 
> programmes you recommend for ubuntu?

I'm not aware of any viruses that run on Linux so it's not an issue I've 
given much thought too. I'm sure it's possible to create a virus that 
will work on Linux so it may be a problem one day, but for now, I think 
there are more important issues to worry about.
For a firewall, use iptables. Ubuntu comes with iptables and the kernel 
modules it needs. I'm not an expert on firewalls so I won't show my 
ignorance by trying to offer advice. If you need to know more why not 
google on "iptables ubuntu" or "iptables tutorial". I found the learning 
curve to be quite steep there so I stopped when I got my relatively 
simple home network to do what I wanted.

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> Andy
> 
> In response to the command:  sudo pppd call speedtch
> 
> I get the repsonse:
> 
> Password:
> Plugin pppoatm.so loaded.
> Using interface ppp0
> Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.38
> 
> This is followed shortly after by:
> 
> LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Connection terminated.
> Modem hangup

Have you checked the details in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and 
/etc/ppp/peers/speedtch are correct?

sudo gedit /etc/ppp/{chap-secrets,peers/speedtch}

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> Andy
> 
> I feel that I'm inching closer to resolving this issue (with your guidance).
> 
> I copied the speedtch files over as directed and now have flashing modem 
> lights during boot up.  However, it still hasn't made a connection.
> 
> I'm still a bit suspicious about this resolv.conf file in /etc.  It is 
> showing a broken link to the same named file in /etc/ppp but the file does 
> not exist in the latter location.  Do you think this is another problem 
> area?

No, if you call pppd with the option usepeerdns (it should be in 
/etc/pppd/peers/speedtch) the file will be created when pppd connects to 
your ISP.
Now you've sorted out the firmware, the question is, why isn't pppd 
connecting. It should be called by the dial bootscript. What happens 
when you run pppd directly with this command?

sudo pppd call speedtch

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin do exist in my home folder, so I suppose 
> my questions are now:
> 
> 1) how do I get them to where they should be;

sudo cp speedtch* /lib/firmware

> 2) how do I recreate the resolv.conf file to mend the broken link I 
> previously mentioned;

That should be created automatically by pppd when it connects with your 
ISP. At the moment that cannot happen because of the firmware issue.

> 3) what else do I need to do??

Hopefully nothing, but we'll see

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> 
> Andy
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The modem lights do not flash on boot up; they just come on a steady green.

So do you have the correct firmware for your modem in /lib/firmware? 
There should be two files, speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin
what do you get when you run the command

ls -l /lib/firmware

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[speedtouch] Re: New to Linux

[Andrew Benton]

Roger London wrote:
> It appears something is not quite right here but I cannot put my finger on 
> it.  Any comments, please??

Did the firmware load? When you reboot the right hand LED on the modem 
should flash eight or nine times while the firmware loads.

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch rev 0 on RBE

[Andrew Benton]

Manuel Bueno wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I configured my green speedtouch on PPPoA following the recipe of
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/
> 
> But my ISP sent to me new drivers in order to get working "the modem"
> on its new RBE platform. I don't have idea about what that means and
> what is different in the configuration process.
> 
> Have Anyone of you done it?

Yes, but I'm not sure of all the details. There was a thread about it 
here http://www.mail-archive.com/speedtouch@ml.free.fr/msg07962.html

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[speedtouch] Re: problems with alcatel usb speedtouch and suse 10.1

[Andrew Benton]

Jürgen Steinbacher wrote:
> hai there...
> 
> i have a problem with this usb alcatel speedtouch modem...
> 
> now i try suse 10.1
> 
> now i tried:
> 
> http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html
> 
> 
> and kinternet symbol is working for the first time
> but, i cant get a connection and the protocol tells me this:

Have you tried doing it without using `kinternet'?

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[speedtouch] Re: SUSE Linux 10.1 - problems connecting with Speedtouch

[Andrew Benton]

Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Add 'debug' in your options file and you will see if username/password is 
> wrong
> by a meaningfull message in the log.
> If you have not an another error message than 'lcp timeout', then vpi.vci is
> wrong.

According to http://www.help.karoo.net/bbsettings.html 1.50 are the 
correct vp/vc settings for Karoo.

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[speedtouch] Re: SUSE Linux 10.1 - problems connecting with Speedtouch

[Andrew Benton]

Martin Houlton wrote:
> Jun 22 17:47:44 linux-igce pppd[2986]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Jun 22 17:47:44 linux-igce pppd[2986]: Connection terminated.

Often this means that you've made a mistake entering your password or 
username into /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or 
/etc/ppp/peers/speedtch

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[speedtouch] Re: linux suse 10.0 problems: no internet connection

[Andrew Benton]

Franky Vertriest wrote:
> I typed dmesg and I found indeed the String "ADSL line is up".
> 
> the right LED however has flasht over 60 times, i think approximatly one 
> minute twenty. When i was logged in and could start firefox, the light was 
> still flashing.
> After the 60 times, the right LED stayed green.
> This is however normal with my phone line. When I am using Windows, I have 
> to wait a minute to make an internet connection.

I see. Perhaps you should increase the timeout on the dial script? At 
the moment it just waits for 40 seconds. On the line where it says

while [[ $((count++)) -lt 40 ]]

change the 40 to 120 so it reads like this

while [[ $((count++)) -lt 120 ]]

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[speedtouch] Re: linux suse 10.0 problems: no internet connection

[Andrew Benton]

Franky Vertriest wrote:
> I have reinstalled linux 10.0 completely and I have followed
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html as recommended
> 
> I however still have problems:
> every time I log in, linux hasn't made an internet connection: 

First things first. Did the firmware load? Once the kernel has loaded 
the speedtch module the left LED should stay green while the right LED 
flashes eight or nine times (and then stays green). Another way to check 
is to look in dmesg for the string "ADSL line is up".

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[speedtouch] Re: linux suse 10.0 problems: no internet connection

[Andrew Benton]

Franky Vertriest wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have Linux 10.0 for over  6 months now, but the problem is that I still 
> didn't achieved an internet connection with this operating system. I have 
> followed a lot of how-tos about installing the Speedtouch 330 modem. Nothing 
> however seems to work and I am quite desperate. Any advice? 
> 
> I have followed this how-to:  
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/suse-9.2.html
> completely (note: I have a revision4 modem and I followed the 
> PPPoE-procedures.)

That howto will not work with SuSE 10. Please try 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html

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[speedtouch] Re: Problem with Debian Etch

[Andrew Benton]

Maximiliano Valin wrote:
> 
> Hello, first at all, I have installed Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.12, I
> and after that begin to send LCP request many times and finally I get the 
> timeout error.

To me that sounds quite good. It suggests that perhaps you've made an 
error in /etc/ppp/chap.secrets or /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch. So check your 
details in those files. /etc/ppp/chap.secrets should be a plain text 
file with your username and password. Both strings should be enclosed in 
quotes and between them should be a space, an asterix * and another space.
In my experience, if the problem is with the modem then ppp will not be 
negotiating with your ISP. You've done well to get that far.

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to connect suse to speedtouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:
> Having confirmed that my dark grey modem is showing both lights green when I 
> boot Suse I can also
> report the following responses to helpful suggestions.
> 
> 1 There is an icon in the system tray resembling a 2-pin plug with curved 
> cable.  The tool tip text is
> 'plugged in'.
> 
> 2 If I try to open Firefox I get the message 'www.novell.com could not be 
> found'.
> 
> 3 ping 68.142.226.54 generates the message 'network is unreachable'.
> 
> 4 /var/log/messages for this evening has the following lines:
> 
> May 9 20:04:19 linux smpppd[6453]: smpppd version 1.59 started

What's this smpppd? Have you started some service that uses ppp? It may 
be blocking the bootscripts attempts to connect.

Have you set up the bootscript to run properly?

ls -l /etc/init.d/dial
cat /etc/init.d/dial

Did you run `insserv dial'?

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse to speedtouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:
> Many thanks for the continuing advice.
> 
> I have worked through the linux-usb.org documentation again using details for 
> pppoa.
> I am reasonably confident that the files chap-secrets, speedtch and 
> bootscript are correct.

Cool

> The output from the command 'pppd call speedtch debug' follows:
> 
> local IP address 84.69.1.48
> remote IP address 62.25.198.171
> primary DNS address 195.92.195.95
> secondary DNS address 195.92.195.94

This looks good. It means you're online...

> Modem lights still blinking continuously red on boot.

This I don't understand at all.

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse to SpeedTouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:
> 1 I'm afraid the significance of the reference to br2684 etc is over my head. 

br2684 is only needed if you want to do pppoe over atm bridging. If you 
have the option to just use ppp over atm, it's simpler to just do that.

> 2 pppoe vs pppoa.  The linux-usb page already mentioned provides a table 
> which indicates that either applies to the UK.  Once again I do not 
> understand the significance here.  Any advice would be appreciated.

pppoa is easier because you don't need br2684ctl to create the nas0 
interface. Go with pppoa

> 3 The modem is off-white, model number appears to be AS-8144B.

most grey modems are revision 4

> 4 Output from ls -l /lib/firmware is:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root935 2006-05-03 21:23 speedtch-1.bin
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 775545 2006-05-03 21:23 speedtch-2.bin

This looks like the right firmware for a rev 4 modem. You already posted 
that the udev finds the firmware so it looks like your troubles are just 
running pppd. Try using pppoa

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse to speedtouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:
> 3 pppd call speedtch debug
> Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
> RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3
> pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch: unrecognized option 'nas0'

Do you need to use pppoe in the UK? pppoa is easier

> 5 dmesg | grep speedtch
> usbcore: registered new driver speedtch
> speedtch 2-2:1.0: found stage 1 firmware speedtch-1.bin
> speedtch 2-2:1.0: found stage 2 firmware speedtch-2.bin

That's good, it found the firmware

> Reboot from here produces red lights blinking continuously on modem.

That doesn't make any sense. What colour is the modem? What output do 
you get from

ls -l /lib/firmware

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse to speedtouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:
> 2 Output from command lsmod:
> br2684 8452 0

Do you need br2684? It's easier to do pppoa

> pppoatm 5760 0
> ppp_generic 28052 1 pppoatm
> speedtch 11656 0
> firmware_class 9856 1 speedtch
> usbatm 15232 1 speedtch
> atm 37720 3 br2684,pppoatm,usbatm
> ehci_hcd 32136 0
> uhci_hcd 32016 0
> usbcore 112640 6 usb_storage,speedtch,usbatm,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

This all looks good. So why didn't the firmware load...did you copy 
speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin to /lib/firmware? What does ls -l 
/lib/firmware give?

ls -l /lib/firmware

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse linux to speedtouch modem

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Andrew Benton wrote:
> I'll have a go at the SuSE page over the weekend. Thanks for the heads 
> up that it is out of date.

The http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html page was written 
to work with SuSE 10 and according to http://en.opensuse.org/Download 
SuSE 10 is still the current released version of SuSE. It must be a 
pre-release version of SuSE-10.1 that you got with your Linux Format 
magazine.

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[speedtouch] Re: failure to link suse linux to speedtouch modem

[Andrew Benton]

Howard and Joyce Yates wrote:

> 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.

If the lights on the modem are not on it suggests that the kernel hasn't 
loaded the module for your USB controller. Could you please post the 
output from the following commands?

/sbin/lspci | grep USB
lsmod

  Of course, that won't be easy because you'll have to save it to a file 
and then put it on a floppy disk or something and email it from windows. 
If you run them like this it will dump the output to dump.txt in your 
home folder

/sbin/lspci | grep USB > dump.txt
lsmod >> dump.txt

I'll have a go at the SuSE page over the weekend. Thanks for the heads 
up that it is out of date.

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[speedtouch] Website and distro issues

[Andrew Benton]

Hello World
does anyone know if the Gentoo page still works?
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/gentoo/index.html
I don't have the time to figure out how to install Gentoo, so I've no way
of checking if the page still works. There have been some significant
changes to udev and firmware loading since the page was written so I
have my doubts that the information in it is still current. If anyone
wants to have a go at rewriting anything that needs fixing please, be my
guest. Anyone can get the page source with cvs:

cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/linux-usb login

(press enter when it asks for a password) then

cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/linux-usb co -P
htdocs/SpeedTouch

Send me a copy of the rewritten page and (if it looks reasonable) I'll
put it up on the site.
Same goes for the Slackware page.
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/slack/index.html
I removed the links to the Slackware page ages ago because I couldn't
get the modem to work with the Slackware kernels and recompiling the
kernel seemed to be causing people too much stress. If anyone cares
about Slackware and wants to update that page then please, rewrite it, 
send me a copy
and I'll restore the links to it from the other pages.

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[speedtouch] Re: Error during connection attempt: No auth is possible

[Andrew Benton]

trancekop wrote:
> the file's content is:
> 
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'mypassword'
> 
Perhaps it should be .co.uk ?

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[speedtouch] Re: Asking for some help... :)

[Andrew Benton]

Jose Silva wrote:
> I´m using Mandriva 2006 x86_64 version, and I tried setting up my
> SpeedTouch 330 (silver) modem, using the instructions on the Mandriva
> section.
> There´s also this error message, that I think it is related to br2684ctl:
> 
>> Feb 16 13:17:33 localhost dial: br2684ctl: error while loading shared 
>> libraries: libatm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
>> or directory

Try compiling the br2684ctl yourself. Save this file as br2684ctl.c 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/LFS/brctl-010226.c

Compile it with the command

gcc -o br2684ctl br2684ctl.c -latm

At least, that's the command to compile it on a 32 bit system. It may be 
different on a 64 bit system. The main thing is to compile it linked 
against your 64 bit libraries.

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems onGentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Max Stricker wrote:
> Hi,
> here they are:
> # /etc/udev/udev.rules:  device naming rules for udev

As Duncan said, there's no rule here to tell udev how to handle firmware 
loading. Try adding this rule

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="/lib/udev/firmware_helper"

Obviously, that's only going to work if you have the firmware_helper in 
/lib/udev. It used to be installed in /sbin. If you've not got the 
firmware_helper then you can get it by compiling a recent version of 
udev with the command

make EXTRAS=extras/firmware

then create /lib/udev and copy firmware_helper into it

mkdir /lib/udev
install -m755 extras/firmware/firmware_helper /lib/udev

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems onGentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Max Stricker wrote:
> and always the same error:
> server ~ # dmesg |grep 'speedt\|DSL'
> usbcore: registered new driver speedtch
> speedtch 2-1:1.0: no stage 1 firmware found!
> 
> Any other ideas?

Please post you udev rules (should be in /etc/udev/rules.d)

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[speedtouch] Re: RBE encapsulation in Linux

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Alonso y Eydis wrote:
> Ok, after 2 days hitting myself against a wall with my little linux 
> experience I ran out of ideas.
> I recompiled my 2.6.14.3 kernel with rfc2684 support as a module and 
> compiled br2684 utility against it.
> After modprobe speedtch I can create a nas0 successfully using br2684 -b 
> 1 -e 0 -c 0 -a 0.33 and it is also successfully configured.
> Then I use ifconfig as suggested in the tutorial using the same IP 
> address and netmask my ISP assigns under windows.
> As far as I understand, since there is no PPPD involved, the connection 
> should be readily established by now. But it is not.

This is just a guess, sorry if it's no use. Perhaps you need to use 
route (read man route) to set nas0 as your default route to the internet 
after you've configured the interface with ifconfig?

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems onGentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Jos� Bernardo Silva wrote:
> Upgrade to latest udev, and add a rule to default-rules so that hotplug won't
> try to load firmware. I had that problem with udev 081 using the wrong
> firmware name, and after solving that I had hotplug and udev fighting to load
> the firmware at the same time.
> One alternative, is to remove udev's firmware_helper, so hotplug will try and
> load the firmware.

I disagree, I think it makes more sense to use udev's firmware_helper to 
load the firmware. The alternative (install the udev_run_hotplugd binary 
and use that to run the hotplug scripts in the old way) should work, but 
the hotplug scripts are deprecated and unmaintained. Udev is the way 
things are going.

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems onGentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Max Stricker wrote:
> Hi,
> here i am again...
> unfortunately i'm not longer able to connect to the internet after
> updating my system using a "emerge -uD world"
> Here are some outputs:

> connect(8.35): No such device

This usually means that the firmware didn't load. Did it load? Did the 
right LED flash eight or nine times and then stays green?
Are you using hotplug or udev to load the firmware? Which version of 
udev are you using? What kernel version are you using?

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems on GentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Max Stricker wrote:
> Hi,
> i compiled my kernel like in the how to on
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/gentoo/
> as built in.

Which kernel?

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems on GentooError

[Andrew Benton]

Max Stricker wrote:
> Hi,
> here I am again,
> unfortunately i had to format my gentoo so i had to set up anything again.
> Now I wantet to trie to set up the internet connection,
> but i have an other problem.
> here it is:
> 
> server ~ # /usr/sbin/pppd call speedtch debug
> Plugin pppoatm.so loaded.
> In pppoatm_process_extra_options
> In options_for_pppoatm
> In pppoatm_check_options
> In pppoatm_connect
> connect(8.35): No such device
> Failed to open 8.35: No such device
> In pppoatm_cleanup
> In pppoatm_close
> In pppoatm_cleanup
> In pppoatm_close
> 
> dmesg returns
> usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> usb 2-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> speedtch 2-1:1.0: no stage 1 firmware found!
> 
> but ls /lib/firmware says that i have speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin
> 
> Can anybody help me setting up my connection?
> 

Which kernel did you compile? Did you configure the speedtouch driver as 
a module or is it built into the kernel?

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch ubuntu problems

[Andrew Benton]

Rafael Flores wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> I I type
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ppp/peers # md5sum /usr/sbin/br2684ctl
> f7a0883ddafff7dabedd9409e118f835  /usr/sbin/br2684ctl

I get 4d01b34f945cc585ceb5459a5ac8e0d2 - it looks like you have a bad 
copy. Try downloading a new copy and try again.

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch ubuntu problems

[Andrew Benton]

Rafael Flores wrote:
> Hi,
> my computer is an Intel Pentium 4 3200Mhz, with Ubuntu 5.04, so what is the 
> appropriate br2684ctl ?

The one you've got should work fine. Perhaps it got corrupted when you 
downloaded it? What is the output you get from:

md5sum /usr/sbin/br2684ctl

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch ubuntu problems

[Andrew Benton]

Rafael Flores wrote:
> I have installed it with install -m 755 br2684ctl /usr/sbin...
> If I type
> root@:~ # ls /usr/sbin/br2684ctl -l
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13821 2006-01-26 22:12 /usr/sbin/br2684ctl
> so I think that the permissions are ok, aren't they?

Yes indeed, the permissions are OK. So why are you getting the error 
message "bash: /usr/sbin/br2684ctl: cannot execute binary file"? What 
architecture is your computer? Is there a suitable br2684ctl to match it 
here? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/br2684ctl/

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch ubuntu problems

[Andrew Benton]

Rafael Flores wrote:
> Hello guys,
> i have installed ubuntu hoary and followed the guide at 
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html line by line and still 
> i can't access the internet-
> My ISP is Telefonica in Spain, so it uses PPPoE.
> 
> 
> I have bee looking is the mailing archive and I didn't find nothing that 
> helps me.
> 
> If I type
> pppd call speedtch
> returns: unrecognized option nas0
> 
> so I tried
> br2684ctl -b -c o -a 8.32
> returns: cannot execute binary file

/usr/sbin/br2684ctl should be executable. Try

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[speedtouch] Re: Problems with Ubuntu Dapper

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feedback wrote:
> 
> pride ~ # md5sum /lib/firmware/speedtch-*
> be58aef97d8435dce070c96574c06564  /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin
> 4dc23adb72007919f30d50ebcf222f8a  /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin
> 
> can somebody provide me with a valid firmware then?
> 

Those numbers look good to me. The firmware you have should work with a 
revision 0 modem, but you could try using the mgmt.o file in this 
tarball http://download.ethomson.com/download/speedmgmt.tar.gz

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[speedtouch] Re: How to update to Fedora4.

[Andrew Benton]

mario wrote:
> ---> RUAUDEL Frédéric, please read, thks. 
> 
> Dear all,
> I am trying to update from Fedora2 to Fedora4 (from a dvd)
> I get a Kernel Panic: no syncing error.
> 
> My first suspect is the patched kernel from
> http://grumz.dyndns.org/ADSL_FC2/ I am using to be able to use my
> speedtouch modem (this is why I am writing to this list).

The default Fedora Core kernel works for me
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/index.html

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> Well now it connects and I can ping an IP!
> but when I try to ping an address I get and error saying unkown host.
> This seems like a DNS issue although when I connect with debug enabled
> it gives the two nameserver IPs on the console output and if I look in
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf they appear there.
> The only thing I could think is that the file resolv.conf should be in
> /etc/ rather than /etc/ppp/ as is the case on my FC setup.
> Is this correct or is there some other explaination for this problem?

You should make the symbolic link

ln -sf ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Looks like you're nearly there.

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> Now it still fails and produces the following in the
> "/var/log/sys.log" file:
> 
> Dec 31 14:41:56 localhost pppd[1327]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
> Dec 31 14:41:56 localhost pppd[1327]: Using interface ppp0
> Dec 31 14:41:56 localhost pppd[1327]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty1
> Dec 31 14:42:26 localhost pppd[1327]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Dec 31 14:42:26 localhost pppd[1327]: Connection terminated.
> Dec 31 14:42:26 localhost pppd[1327]: Using interface ppp0
> Dec 31 14:42:26 localhost pppd[1327]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty1
> Dec 31 14:42:26 localhost pppd[1327]: tcflush failed: Bad file descriptor
> Dec 31 14:42:28 localhost pppd[1327]: tcsetattr: Invalid argument
> (line 1001)
> Dec 31 14:42:28 localhost pppd[1327]: Exit.
> 
> any ideas as to what is causing this?

It looks like you've made a mistake in /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch
For me it says Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.38, those are the VP/VC numbers I 
put in /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch. If you can't see what's wrong, add the 
option debug.

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
>> Dec 31 13:40:49 localhost pppd[1332]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root,
>> uid 0 Dec 31 13:40:49 localhost pppd[1332]: Couldn't set tty to PPP
>> discipline: Invalid argument Dec 31 13:40:49 localhost pppd[1332]:
>> Exit.
> 
> What causes this?

Did you compile your kernel with CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y ?

On the menu
Device Drivers --->
Network device support --->
...
[*] PPP support for async serial ports

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:

> 
> Either I don't know where the logs are supposed to be (I tried all of
> the /var/log/* files) or there are no log entries at all.
> Where should the log be?



The fact that you're not getting any messages from udev suggests that
it's not catching the hotplug event. It used to be that it would catch
hotplug events because of this line in the bootscript

echo /sbin/udevsend > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

But something has changed with recent versions of udev. It now seems
it's not listening at all to /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, try adding this line

udevd --daemon

Put it in the udev bootscript /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev just after the line
udevstart || failed=1 so that it reads like this


udevstart || failed=1
udevd --daemon

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Either I don't know where the logs are supposed to be (I tried all of
> the /var/log/* files) or there are no log entries at all.
> Where should the log be?

/var/log/sys.log

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> The udev rule I used is
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="/lib/udev/firmware_helper"
> at the end of the /etc/udev/rules.d/25-lfs.rules
> and there is a firmware_helper file in /lib/udev

Try changing udevs log setting to debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf, then you 
might get a clue in the logs?

udev_log="debug"

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[speedtouch] Re: Burgundy SpeedTouch 330 under openSuSe 10: no such device

[Andrew Benton]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Andrew - thank you for your suggestions, they pointed me in exactly the
> right direction. Looking at /proc/bus/usb/devices showed that it
> definitely is a Revision 2 modem, and I suddenly remembered that I used
> the firmware extractor on ZZZL_3.012 by mistake, which is for Revision 4.
> Ran it on KQD6_3.012, copied the results to /lib/firmware and rebooted,
> straight onto the web first time.

Bing! Jobs a good 'un!

> Have some problem now with netapplet, but that's for some other mailing
> list. Much thanks for your help.

It's annoying, isn't it. The only solution I found was just to delete 
/opt/gnome/bin/netapplet, which is a bit crude. Someone on a SuSE 
mailing list may know a more sophisticated answer.

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[speedtouch] Re: Burgundy SpeedTouch 330 under openSuSe 10: no such device

[Andrew Benton]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm following the PPPoATM option. 

Good

> The
> problem I'm getting is that I'm seeing "The Speedtouch firmware didn't
> load" after reboot, and when I try entering 'pppd call speedtch' from the
> command line I get:
> 
> Plugin pppoatm.so loaded
> PPPoATM plugin_init
> PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm -SUCCESS:0.38
> connect (0.38): no such device.

If the firmware didn't load, pppd won't be able to connect

> I should also add that when I try to determine the modem revision using:
> grep -B 1 THOMSON /proc/bus/usb/devices &&
> grep -B 1 ALCATEL /proc/bus/usb/devices 
> 
> I get an empty response.

I don't understand this. Could you please post the output of cat 
/proc/bus/usb/devices

> Both lights on the modem stay a steady green throughout the entire
> process.
> 
> Can anyone please give me some hints as to what would be a useful couple
> of diagnostic steps at this stage?

Well if the modem is burgundy the odds are it's a revision two and so 
the right firmware to use is the KQD6_3.012.
Could you please post the output from ls -l /lib/firmware

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ ls -la /mnt/LFS/lib/firmware
> total 792
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Dec 27 18:59 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   4096 Dec 26 22:12 ..
> - -rw---  1 root root935 Dec 27 18:59 speedtch-1.bin
> - -rw---  1 root root 775545 Dec 27 18:59 speedtch-2.bin

Is it a revision 4 modem?

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> I'm using vanilla kernel version 2.6.14.4, I've got udev version 079,
> Yes I compiled it as a module (a kernel from the same .config works on
> my FC4 box so it's unlikely to be kernel config).
> 

What about the udev rule and firmware_helper? What udev rule do you have
to load the firmware? Does the +RUN="..." part point to a firmware_helper
binary?

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on LFS

[Andrew Benton]

Richard Connon wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> I recently set up LFS from the current development book and installed
> the speedtouch drivers following the instructions on
> http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/LFS/index.html
> Having done this following the instructions for the newer version on
> udev I rebooted.
> 
> When trying to load the firmware I get the error message:
> 
> no stage 1 firmware found!
> 
> although the firmware is actually there.
> 
> I think the problem is to do with the udev and hotplug version issue
> mentioned in the guide but I don't know how to confirm/fix this.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
What kernel are you using? What version of udev? Did you compile the 
speedtouch driver as a module?
I do believe you (honest) but just to be sure, can you post the output from
ls -l /lib/firmware

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[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch on Fedora Core4

[Andrew Benton]

Ashish Kumar wrote:
> How should I activate PPPoA and disable PPPoE now? Earlier, I had loaded the
> br2684 module. How should I unload it? 

It's the /etc/rc.modules script that loads the module. Delete the script 
and it won't load it. To unload a module use rmmod

Use the instructions for PPPoA on the page to setup PPPoA

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[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch on Fedora Core4

[Andrew Benton]

Ashish Kumar wrote:
> Dear Andrew,
> 
> You are bang on target!! I have been actually using pppoe while my ISP just
> confirmed the following, am cutting and pasting the text:
> 
> "For your reference the Manual Broadband settings for the UK

If you're in the UK then avoid the added complexity of PPPoE and use PPPoA

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[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch on Fedora Core4

[Andrew Benton]

Ashish Kumar wrote:
> Dec 27 10:40:49 localhost kernel: ADSL line is up (576 Kib/s down | 288
> Kib/s up)

This is good, the firmware loaded, that's the first step out of the way.

> Dec 27 10:40:49 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the
> University of California
> 
> Dec 27 10:40:49 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> 
> Dec 27 10:40:49 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 24
> 
> Dec 27 10:40:49 localhost kernel: br2684_create: register_netdev failed

Looks like you have a problem with br2684. You didn't mention you were 
using PPPoE. Do you need to use PPPoE?
Recheck all the steps.
Did you install linux-atm? Did you add /usr/local/lib to 
/etc/ld.so.conf? Did you (as root) run ldconfig? Did you create the 
/etc/rc.modules script to modprobe br2684? Did you make the script 
executable?

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[speedtouch] Re: Boot without modem

[Andrew Benton]

Juan Carlos Muñoz wrote:
> Hi! I've installed my speedtouch USB modem following the instructions in 
> your website (I use Fedora Core 3, as well as Windows XP), and it has 
> been working properly for months. Now I need to use Linux without the 
> modem (I don't have it here rigth now because I've had to bring my 
> computer home on holidays), and every time I reboot the system doesn't 
> find the ppp0 device, of course. What sholud I do to restart the 
> computer without the modem?

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 and add the line

ONBOOT=no

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[speedtouch] Re: A matter of nameservers

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Charles Trois wrote:
> local  IP address 81.249.123.67
> remote IP address 193.253.160.3
> primary   DNS address 80.10.246.130
> secondary DNS address 80.10.246.3
>   * Mounting network filesystems ... 
> 
> 
> What is wrong is that I cannot browse the Web, although I can ping. The 
> DNS addresses above mean nothing to me, the right ones being 
> 193.252.19.3 and 4 (but I have not been asked for them in the process). 
> So I put the right ones in both /etc/resolv.conf and 
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and rebooted, but the result was the same (and, as 
> a matter of fact, the bogus addresses were written in 
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf again).
> 

Don't reboot. Any changes you make to /etc/resolv.conf will take effect 
immediately. 
What are the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf? If you (as a user) can't read it 
then you won't be able to resolve domain names. 
Also, what firewall rules have you got running? Remove any firewall until 
you've got things working, then fix that.

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[speedtouch] Re: A matter of nameservers

[Andrew Benton]

Duncan Sands wrote:
>> What is wrong is that I cannot browse the Web, although I can ping. The 
>> DNS addresses above mean nothing to me, the right ones being 
>> 193.252.19.3 and 4 (but I have not been asked for them in the process). 
>> So I put the right ones in both /etc/resolv.conf and 
>> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and rebooted, but the result was the same (and, as 
>> a matter of fact, the bogus addresses were written in 
>> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf again).
> 
> Hi Charles, have you got usepeerdns in your pppd options file?  If so,
> remove it.  That will stop /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten.
> 

Err, no it won't. The usepeerdns option causes pppd to write to 
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf, not /etc/resolv.conf. It must be some other process or 
daemon that's overwriting /etc/resolv.conf. Unless /etc/resolv.conf is a 
symbolic link pointing at /etc/ppp/resolv.conf

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[speedtouch] Re: Connection keeps failing after a few days

[Andrew Benton]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
>   ATM dev 0: error -110 fetching device status
> 
> Other details:
> 
>   Linux 2.6.14.2, x86_64, smp preempt. 
>   Silver modem.
>   $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep -B 1 THOMSON
>   P:  Vendor=06b9 ProdID=4061 Rev= 4.00
>   S:  Manufacturer=THOMSON
> 
> Is this a known issue?

This looks like an issue that has been (and is still being) discussed 
on the
kernel mailing list. Eg 
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.3/0044.html
It seems to only affect silver revision 4 modems.

> Is there anything I can do to reestablish the link without rebooting the 
> machine?
> 
I don't know, but if it was me I'd try

rmmod speedtch
killall pppd
modprobe speedtch # (wait for firmware to load)
pppd call filename

Of course, the catch 22 is that if it's a remote machine and the internet
connection has gone down you'll need to automate it with a script.
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[speedtouch] Re: Connection problem: I'm not online using the speedtouch under Mandriva 2005 limited edition

[Andrew Benton]

daniele barbini wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>   Yes I did.
>   I loaded the firmware in this way:
> install -d /lib/hotplug/firmware &&
> install -m 400 speedtch-*.bin /lib/hotplug/firmware
>   and I followed the rest of instruction.
>   But when I re-boot the machine the
>   right LED on the modem doesn't flash
>   but It's always fixed to green color.

Right, so the firmware didn't load. But why? The section from your syslog that 
you sent in your first message looks confusing to me. The kernel finds the 
firmware but also says the speedtch module didn't load. How can that be?
The mention of usb.agent makes me wonder. Have you tried to get the speedtouch 
working some other way which didn't work and that is now preventing the 
speedtch module loading? 
Can you check to see if the speedtch module is loaded

lsmod | grep speedtch

If not, can you (as root) modprobe the speedtch module? 


modprobe speedtch  


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[speedtouch] Re: LFS box w/kernel 2.6.11 and isochronous drive

[Andrew Benton]

Alonso y Eydis wrote:
> #
> # USB DSL modem support
> #
> CONFIG_USB_ATM=y
> CONFIG_USB_SPEEDTOUCH=y

Please recompile the kernel with the speedtouch driver as a module, then try 
again with the new driver.

CONFIG_USB_SPEEDTOUCH=m

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[speedtouch] Re: LFS box w/kernel 2.6.11 and isochronous drive

[Andrew Benton]

Alonso y Eydis wrote:
> I downloaded kernel 2.6.14.3, configured, compiled appropriately and 
> I'm able to boot from proper bzImage.
> Now when doing make in checked out directory there are no warnings 
> as before but there is no .ko file at all either so I can not insmod 
> anything! Following is the output.
> 
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14.3/build M=/usr/src/speedtouch
> EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DDEBUG
> make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/linux-2.6.14.3'
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/linux-2.6.14.3'
> 
> I'm a Linux illiterate but eager to learn (maybe the hard way but 
> learning anyway...). LFS uses Linux-Libc-Headers and the version I built 
> has 2.6.11.2 version. Could this be the reason I cannot produce the .ko 
> files? Current Libc-Headers version is 2.6.12.0. If this is the source 
> of my problem, version 2.6.12.0 would be of any help?
> I searched on how to produce a more recent Libc-Headers package with 
> no avail.

The Libc-Headers are not the problem. The new driver builds fine for me with 
the same Libc-Headers as you. (Or it did until linux-2.6.15-rc3-git1 but that's 
a different story..;) 
How did you configure your kernel? Did you enable loadable module support? Did 
you configure the speedtouch driver as a module when you compiled your kernel? 
Please post your kernel .config
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[speedtouch] Re: Connection problem: I'm not online using the speedtouch under Mandriva 2005 limited edition

[Andrew Benton]

daniele barbini wrote:
>  Thanks you 
>   for the answer,
>   I read the documentation about the speedtouch 
>   modem clicking on the link below:
>   http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/mandrake/index.html
>   I follow all instruction but when i reboot my machine i found
>   the error inside /var/log/syslog file.

So did the firmware load? When the computer boots the right hand LED on the 
modem should flash about ten times while the firmware loads.
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[speedtouch] Re: Connection problem: I'm not online using the speedtouch under Mandriva 2005 limited edition

[Andrew Benton]

daniele barbini wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm Daniele and It's shortly that i'm using linux.
>   I have the speedtouch 330 THOMSON modem and 
>   following your instruction

Which instructions?

>   I found some problem 
>   inside the /var/log/syslog file that  
>   i write you below.
>   The operating system i'm using is 
>   Mandriva 2005 limited edtion.
>   
>   Nov 30 23:00:03 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver speedtch
> Nov 30 23:00:03 localhost kernel:  1-1: found stage 1 firmware 
> speedtch-1.bin
> Nov 30 23:00:03 localhost kernel:  1-1: found stage 2 firmware 
> speedtch-2.bin
> Nov 30 22:59:42 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting speedtch 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/speedt
> ch.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Nov 30 22:59:43 localhost usb.agent[1492]: ... can't load module speedtch
> Nov 30 22:59:43 localhost usb.agent[1492]: missing kernel or user mode 
> driver speedtch

This doesn't make any sense. The entries for 23:00:03 appear to have been 
logged before things that happened twenty seconds earlier? Modprobe says there 
was an error inserting speedtch and yet the kernel finds the firmware? What's 
that all about? Did the firmware load (did the right hand LED on the modem 
flash about ten times?) And why is hotplugs usb.agent trying to load the 
speedtch module? Did you plug the modem in after you booted?
What did you do?
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[speedtouch] Re: Need liblinux-atm and ppp-pppoatm

[Andrew Benton]

Mike wrote:
> My distribution doesn't include liblinux-atm and ppp-pppoatm plugins and 
> I can't seem to find them anywhere?

Are you sure they aren't available? Try getting the Mandriva Control Centre to 
list the available packages alphabetically. Or type atm into the box and click 
search. 
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[speedtouch] Re: Need liblinux-atm and ppp-pppoatm

[Andrew Benton]

Mike wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My distribution doesn't include liblinux-atm and ppp-pppoatm plugins and 
> I can't seem to find them anywhere?
> 

What distribution are you using?

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[speedtouch] Re: Problems with Speedtouch 330 and large pings.

[Andrew Benton]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have found that if I do
> ping -s 6 www.demon.net
> the ping fails, but what is worse, all future IP traffic ceases.
> I have found that restarting pppd fixes this problem.
> I have not been able to work out if this is a pppd problem or a 
> speedtch.ko module problem.

Maybe it's a PEBKAC problem? man ping says

  -s packetsize
 Specifies the number of data bytes to be sent.  The  default  is
 56,  which translates into 64 ICMP data bytes when combined with
 the 8 bytes of ICMP header data.

which makes 6 seem a bit large

> Can anybody help?

Who can say?
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[speedtouch] Re: demande de renseignement

[Andrew Benton]

mandar abdelkrim wrote:
> et l'erreur que j'obtien est: cannot execute a binary file.

Did you make the firmware-extractor executable?

chmod +x firmware-extractor

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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on zenwalk 1.3

[Andrew Benton]

ponky wrote:
> 
> I had split the firmware and had installed them also. I tried pppd but
> nothing happends. Do i have to install the UDEV thing? What will i do next.
> In windows my dsl connection is PPPoE.
> 

Right. That's new information. At least, it's new to me (maybe I wasn't paying 
attention). PPPoE is a little different but it's not impossible.

So did the firmware load? If it did you should get some output from this command

dmesg | grep 'ADSL line is up'

Could you post the output please?

If the firmware loads, to do PPPoE you'll need a copy of 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/mandrake/br2684ctl

Make it executable and save it somewhere in roots $PATH

chmod +x br2684ctl
cp br2684ctl /usr/sbin

Put your username and password (to log in with your ISP) in 
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets with a star between them, like 
this

'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'password'

Create a file to configure ppp. Call it speedtch and save it as 
/etc/ppp/peers/speedtch

noipdefault
defaultroute
user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
noauth
updetach
usepeerdns
plugin rp-pppoe.so
nas0

Change the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to be the same as the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' you 
put in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.

Load some kernel modules

modprobe pppoatm
modprobe br2684

Now use the br2684ctl to create a bridging connection. 
Change the VP.VC in this line for your ISP's vpi/vci numbers (in Britain it 
would be 0.38)

/usr/sbin/br2684ctl -b -c 0 -a VP.VC

Wait a second or two then, to be honest, I'm not really sure what this line 
does, but it is needed for PPPoE

ifconfig nas0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

And finally, if all that worked run pppd

pppd call speedtch

If you get an error along the way, don't ignore it. Post the error here. If one 
step fails, so will the rest.
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[speedtouch] Re: speedtouch on zenwalk 1.3

[Andrew Benton]

ponky wrote:
> Hi all, Im learning linux and Im currently using speedtouch modem for ADSL.
> I had installed zenwalk 1.3 and had read the guides here: "
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/speedtouch/speedtouch/INSTALL?rev=HEAD"
> I had follow the guide carefully but still it didnt work. Can you pleas help
> me, what am i supposed to do next. I had already installed the driver
> (source code) and the firmware, and had run "speedtouch-setup --pppoe" and
> had completed the setup. When i run the "speedtouch-start" it only says:
> connecting to DSL... then nothing happends, after that i tried firefox it
> cant open webpages. Please help.
> 

According to http://www.zenwalk.org/ Zenwalk Linux 1.3 uses kernel 2.6.12.6 so 
you shouldn't need to use the userspace drivers to load the firmware, the 
kernel load the firmware itself. Get a copy of the firmware extractor 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware-extractor and then use it 
to split the firmware into two parts like this

chmod +x firmware-extractor &&
./firmware-extractor /path/to/your/firmware

That should split the firmware into speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin. Copy 
them into hotplugs firmware folder which is usually /lib/firmware and the 
kernel should load the firmware when you boot up, or when you plug the modem 
in. If the firmware loads the right hand light should flash about eight or nine 
times and then stay green. 

If you can get that far let us know and we'll see if we can talk you through 
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[speedtouch] Re: I Know Nothing

[Andrew Benton]

Hazel Grant wrote:
> Hi Again
>  Sorry to keep bothering all of you but I just can't get this to work for
> me.
> Ok. so this whatI can do. Have checked and know that my modem is Silver Rev
> 4. Have a file in my "root-file browser" called "firmware-extractor" in my
> "home" folder. This folder contains the following files:-
> configure
> crc.c
> crc.h
> firmware.c
> makefile.in 
> README
> KQD6_3.012
> mgmt.o (formerly ZZZL_3.012)
> SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip
>  When I type in the commands
>  cd firmware-extractor &&
> ./configure &&
> make &&
> su
>  I get told* bash: cd: firmware-extractor: No such file or directory*
> **
> I am logged in as root with (Alt-F2) gksudo nautilus
>  Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Pleease
>  Haze
> 

You seem to have made a wrong turn somewhere, it looks like you're trying to 
compile the firmware-extractor from the source. It would be simpler to follow 
the instructions on this page 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html 
If you don't know what you're doing, just use the precompiled 
firmware-extractor 

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[speedtouch] Re: hi

[Andrew Benton]

Duncan Sands wrote:
> Hi Brogh,
> 
>> logs 
>> Oct 29 12:11:21 Lucinda kernel: ATM dev 0: DSL line goes down
>> Oct 29 12:11:21 Lucinda kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is down
>> Oct 29 12:11:33 Lucinda kernel: ATM dev 0: DSL line goes up
>> Oct 29 12:11:33 Lucinda kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is up (4832 kb/s 
>> down | 320 kb/s up)
> 
> I see...  Andrew, didn't you see something like this too?
> 

No, I've never seen anything like this and don't know what to make of it. For 
me, if the line goes up it stays up. Sorry I can't help

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[speedtouch] Re: I Know Nothing

[Andrew Benton]

Hazel Grant wrote:
>  When I open Ubuntu I now have a desktop where I can see my two hard drives
> and my cd drive. There are also a couple of drop down menus I can access
> from the toolbar,as well as an internet browser, an email program and a help
> file.
>  Any idea where I look to find a command window?
>  I have printed out the pages with the instructions that I need to follow
> and have downloaded the files I will need to a CD. I have also got the
> precompiled binary file in a text file on CD too.
>  I just don't know where to go to start inputting the neccessary commands.
>  Hoping you or someone who know Ubuntu can help me.

On the end of the top toolbar there should be an Applications Menu. You want 
Applications> Accessories> Terminal

Good Luck
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[speedtouch] Re: Getting line status

[Andrew Benton]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Is there any way of looking up the connection status (speed, etc)  in /proc 
> or 
> somewhere?
> 

dmesg | grep ATM

> Aslo, although my connection seems fine, my kernel log is flooded with these:
> 
> ATM dev 0: speedtch_check_status entered
> ATM dev 0: speedtch_check_status: line state 20
> ATM dev 0: speedtch_check_status entered
> ATM dev 0: speedtch_check_status: line state 20

I get those every 5 seconds when I use a revision 4 Speedtouch

> Is that normal and what does it mean? Any way of calming it down?
> 
I don't think it should be happening. Apparently it means the driver is polling 
the modem to see if the line is up.  20 means it is trying to synchronize the 
line. When I asked Duncan about it he asked if the telephone line was plugged 
into the modem :o\
I got rid of the messages by recompiling the kernel with

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[speedtouch] Re: I Know Nothing

[Andrew Benton]

Hazel Grant wrote:
> Hi
> This may not be the best place to ask but I really would appreciate some
> help. I have just tried to install debian Sarge on my computer, but I know
> nothing about any linux at all. I have a Speedtouch (330 I think) USB
> (silver) modem, but I also have an unused ethernet card in my machine.
> During installation I couldn't install my modem as the only thing debian
> sees is my ethernet card.
> After installation I can log in, then ?
> It appears to me to be similar to Dos, is this right? what am I supposed to
> input to make something happen? Can someone out there help me or do I have
> to revert to a Windows only machine again?
It sounds like it boots to the command prompt and not X windows? (X is a 
graphical desktop environment). I think Debian is a tough distro to install. By 
default it installs a 2.4 kernel which more or less restricts you to using the 
userspace speedtouch drivers
http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/download.en.html
or
http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/
If I were you I'd give up on Debian and install Ubuntu. It's based on Debian 
but it's not obsolete. There are many other distro's to try. Fedora, Mandrake, 
SuSE. To try and start on Linux from the command prompt is a steep learning 
curve.



> Sorry to be so helpless, but far from ingnorance being bliss I have never
> felt so stupid in all my life.
>  Hoping that someone will take pity in me
>  Thank you
> Haze
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[speedtouch] Re: Kernel drivers on Centos 4.2

[Andrew Benton]

Chris Notley wrote:
> Thanks Andy, I'll give it a go.  Is the /etc/ppp/peers an alternative to
> using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 or is is a requirement
> on RHEL systems?
> 

I think /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 is the way Red Hat automate 
bringing up network interfaces. More details in 
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-/sysconfig.txt on Fedora Systems. 
/etc/ppp/peers/filename is the place pppd will look for config options when you 
run 

pppd call filename

More details in man pppd

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[speedtouch] Re: Kernel drivers on Centos 4.2

[Andrew Benton]

Chris Notley wrote:
> The green lights come on; I see a message saying adsl is up at the
> console with upstream & downstream speeds, 

That sounds quite hopeful. If the firmware loads and the line synchronises the 
next step is to run ppp to connect with your ISP. If your isp uses PPPoA you'll 
need a PPPoA aware version of pppd. Do you have a 
/usr/lib/pppd/2.4.3/pppoatm.so? If so, put these options in a file in 
/etc/ppp/peers

noipdefault
defaultroute
user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
noauth
updetach
usepeerdns
plugin pppoatm.so
vpi.vci

Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your username (same as in chap-secrets) and 
vpi.vci should be the numbers for your country/ISP (in Britain it's 0.38). 
Then, as root run pppd with the name of that file as an option. So if you 
called it speedtch that would be

pppd call speedtch

Good luck
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[speedtouch] Re: Ubuntu/Kubuntu 5.10

[Andrew Benton]

Eduardo Carminati wrote:
> Hi people.
> 
> I installed Kubuntu 5.10 and the howto is not working. It worked well 
> with 5.04.
> 
> Anyone knows how can i install SPeedtouch 330 usb silver rev 4???
> 

I've changed a couple of details the page yesterday and it works fine for me 
with Ubuntu-5.10 (I've not downloaded Kubuntu-5.10 yet but it should be the 
same). Perhaps you still have an old copy of the page in your browsers cache? 
Could you be a bit more specific about which bit is not working? 
I found it slightly easier to get it working on Ubuntu-5.10 because it comes 
with libatm already installed.

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[speedtouch] Re: SpeedTouch 300

[Andrew Benton]

Adrian Reynolds wrote:
> Hi, I am very new to Linux so I need simple instructions. I have been trying
> to install the SpeedTouch 300 in Suse 9.3 professional. I followed the
> instructions in the 
> Link: http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/  but each time I try to
> connect it doesn't work. I have Re=4.00 after pasting in: 
> unzip /media/floppy/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip &&
> Install -m 744 /media/floppy/modem_run /usr/sbin
> I am asked do I want to replace KQD6_3.012 Y=yes N=no a=all r=replace what
> do I do?
> 

It doesn't matter what you choose. The error message is asking you do you want 
to replace the file KQD6_3.012 so clearly you've already extracted it. You 
don't need to replace it, but if you do it won't make any difference.
> as I have rev=4.00 I:  cp ZZZL_3.012 /etc/ppp/mgmt.o 
> 
Why? for SuSE 9.3 you will need to extract the firmware with the 
firmware-extractor. Please follow the instructions on 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html
> Also when editing Kate Secrets it says: Add one line to the end of each, can
> you tell me what to add and where?
> 

Probably not. The details that authenticate your connection with your ISP are 
secret. They're not something that should be posted on a mailing list. Some 
things you just have to do yourself.

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[speedtouch] Re: Error: Not finding nas0

[Andrew Benton]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This error occurs when booting the slack 10.1
> The Kernel version is: 2.6.10
> Somebody help me
> 
> 
> 
> RFC1483/2684 bridge: Interface "nas0" could not be created, reason: No such
> device

Did you install the br2684ctl bridging utility? Did you wait until after the 
firmware had loaded and the line synchronised before you ran

br2684ctl -b -c 0 -a VP.VC

# VP.VC should be the right numbers for your ISP

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[speedtouch] Re: Fedora 4, speedtouch, and http://grumz.dyndns.org/ADSL_FC2/

[Andrew Benton]

mario wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:02, David Simon Cooper wrote:
> 
> thanks for the reply
> 
>> It [=speedtouch] works like a treat on FC4, the most reliable and painless 
>> modem 
>> install ever. I am running a Compaq SFF machine (Firewall/router) with a 
>> USB Speedtouch 330 and it works great. pppd kicks in automatically and 
>> does all the dirty work. Just follow the instructions on the site
> 
> site? which one? 
> 
Please try this one http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/index.html

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[speedtouch] Re: kernel panic using pppd

[Andrew Benton]

Eduardo Niehues wrote:
> I only have the kernel message:
> Kernel panic: not syncing: Fatal exeption ( and some other things that
> I don't remember)
> 

That suggests that you've forgotten to compile support for and important part 
of your hardware into your kernel. Did you compile support for your root 
filesystem into the kernel? If you install pciutils you can (as root) use lspci 
to get some info about your chipset.

If you've got a digital camera, the easy way to record the details of a kernel 
panic is to take a picture of it.

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[speedtouch] Re: Problems in fc4 with internet conection sharing

[Andrew Benton]

hyper soldier wrote:
> Hi
> I have a speedtouch 330 usb modem. I managed after some difficulties
> to install and configure it in fedora core 4. Now I have it working
> with a pppoe connection.
> The problem is that I want to share my adsl conection with another
> computer in a LAN.
> Before having this adsl modem I had a 56 kb dialup modem and the
> internet sharing worked perfectly in both computers.
> I used this script to make it:
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
> 
> But when I tried to make it with this xdsl conection I am having
> problems in the other computer. It can make pings to whatever machine,
> list ftp directories, comunicate with Instant messengers but internet
> browsing doesn't work

That sounds like a nameserver issue. Have you copied the numerical addresses of 
your ISP's nameserver into the /etc/resolv.conf on the client machine? Can you 
ping websites by their numerical address?

> (I think that the problems are receiving the
> data from web servers). I've been checking the browsers and everything
> in that computer but it seems that everything is ok and the problem is
> in the gateway. Internet conection sharing also works when the gateway
> is running windows xp.
> 


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[speedtouch] Re: Firewall use

[Andrew Benton]

Beso wrote:
> I can control the firewall only with yast and i added a new interface the 
> ppp0 wich is opened by the connection script, but i don't have any log 
> monitoring it. Besides, all the logs are clear, even the system ones, and i 
> have to look for the problem. maybe my system logger is broken, cause it 
> doesn't register anything. I now i can start up the modem with all the 
> users, and i can start it at startup. it was all a matter of permits that 
> for some reason weren't passed to all the users. It seems that it was a 
> default acl that blocked the modifications of the permits, even if i don't 
> really know why it has started up, because it wasn't added. Is there any way 
> on listing the configuration of iptables from the terminal or with a text 
> editor without using the iptables command, that it seems to not exist on my 
> pc even if the rpm is listed by yast as installed?
> 

Linux is not like Windows. System security is built into Linux. Linux is more 
secure because may system processes are controlled by the super user, root and 
are not available to ordinary users. Network interfaces should be created by 
root. /sbin/iptables is usually in roots $PATH but would not normally be in an 
ordinary users $PATH as normal users shouldn't be able to alter the systems 
firewall rules.

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[speedtouch] Re: Firewall use

[Andrew Benton]

Beso wrote:
> I use the suse 9.3 with the 0.0 rev green modem. It seems that the suse 
> firewall cannot be started with this modem. 

What makes you think that? Can you describe the problems you're having?

> And the modem does not connect 
> at boot even if i used all theinstructions to make it connect. 

There are many different instructions out there on the internet, it would help 
if you could be a little more specific about which instructions you are 
referring to. Do you get any error messages in /var/log/messages?


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[speedtouch] Re: ERROR: Can't determine DISPLAY

[Andrew Benton]

Andrew Benton wrote:
> Santi Aguirre wrote:
>> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: local  IP address 80.39.169.85
>> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: remote IP address 192.168.153.1
>> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: primary   DNS address 80.58.61.250
>> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: secondary DNS address 80.58.61.254
>>
>>
> 
> It looks like you're online. Can you not browse web pages? Does ping work? 
> Try it for website and numerical addresses. For example
> 
> ping www.bbc.co.uk
> 
> and
> 
> ping 212.58.224.35
> 
> If the issue isn't a resolv.conf nameserver problem, maybe it's a firewall 
> issue?
> 

Also, what about ethernet connections? Is the computer attached to a local area 
network? Have you configured the ethernet connection as the default 
route/gateway?

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Santi Aguirre wrote:
> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: local  IP address 80.39.169.85
> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: remote IP address 192.168.153.1
> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: primary   DNS address 80.58.61.250
> Sep  3 01:07:13 linux pppd[7149]: secondary DNS address 80.58.61.254
> 
> 

It looks like you're online. Can you not browse web pages? Does ping work? Try 
it for website and numerical addresses. For example

ping www.bbc.co.uk

and

ping 212.58.224.35

If the issue isn't a resolv.conf nameserver problem, maybe it's a firewall 
issue?

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Santi Aguirre wrote:
> I know you did your best to help me and really I do not want to bother all 
> of you anymore but if you have an small idea of what happens I would really 
> appreciate, because I am starting to be upset.
> Perhaps should I change of distribution?
> 

The speedtouchconf package won't work with PPPoE because it doesn't contain the 
br2684ctl utility needed to create the bridging connection needed to run PPPoE 
over ATM. The http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/suse/index.html page is the 
only way you'll get online with SuSE in Spain. It would help if you could give 
us a clue where the problem is. Does the firmware load? The right LED should 
flash eight or nine times more than the right LED and then both should stay 
green and it should say something like this in /var/log/messages.

kernel: ADSL line is up (576 Kib/s down | 288 Kib/s up)

Does the br2684ctl utility create a bridging connection? It should say this in 
/var/log/messages

RFC1483/2684 bridge: Interface "nas0" created successfully
RFC1483/2684 bridge: Communicating over ATM 0.0.38, encapsulation: LLC
RFC1483/2684 bridge: Interface configured
RFC1483/2684 bridge: RFC 1483/2684 bridge daemon started

Does pppd try to connect? It should say something like

pppd[8359]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
pppd[8359]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3
pppd[8359]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
kernel: nas0: no IPv6 routers present
pppd[8359]: PPP session is 39353
kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 24
pppd[8359]: Using interface ppp0
pppd[8359]: Connect: ppp0 <--> nas0
pppd[8359]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
pppd[8359]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
pppd[8359]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
pppd[8359]: CHAP authentication succeeded
pppd[8359]: peer from calling number 00:09:7C:C6:73:07 authorized
pppd[8359]: local  IP address 82.111.121.136
pppd[8359]: remote IP address 195.172.210.215
pppd[8359]: primary   DNS address 212.135.1.36
pppd[8359]: secondary DNS address 195.40.1.36

One last thing, it is unwise to post your ISP username and password to a public 
mailing list

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Yousry S. Abdel-Hamid wrote:
> I have spent more than five days with same site trying to connect and no way..

Can you give us a clue what's going wrong? Does the firmware load? Are there 
any relevant error messages in the system log?

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Santi Aguirre wrote:
> Thank your for your quick reply.
> 
> What I did was to close my personal session and then I loged again as root 
> in the KDE login screen and used a KDE program to put the commands (I do not 
> remember the name I suppose kate)...
> 

So does any text editor work for root?

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[Andrew Benton]

Santi Aguirre wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I am a novice. A few days ago I installed my first Linux distribution: SUSE 
> 9.3.
> In order to install the driver for my USB Speedtouch modem I followed the 
> instructions from  http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/index.html
> 
> However when I put my details for my ISP in either /etc/ppp/chap-secrets or 
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets I got the following error:
> 
> kate: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't determine DISPLAY. Aborting.
> 

How did you login as root? Did you log out of your own save and then login as 
root at the KDE login screen? Or did you use su?

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[speedtouch] Re: problems installing the linux kernel Speedtouch driver for Ubuntu HH

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Georges & AM wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I still got a problem creating speedtch-1.bin and speedtouch-2.bin.
> I copied everything to my /home/georges map: libatm1, firmware-extractor.tar
> 

Looks like you've downloaded the firmware-extractor.tar.bz2. Try using the 
precompiled binary 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware-extractor

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[speedtouch] Re: SpeedTouch and Mandrake 10.2 Limited Edition

[Andrew Benton]

Yousry S. Abdel-Hamid wrote:
> Hello Andrew..
> 
> As you know, Mandrake is now callled Mandriva so Mandrake 10.2 is in fact 
> called Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition. The 2006 edition is about to be 
> released however it is still a Beta version.. Here is the link and all the 
> mirror sites you may need to access..
> http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en-us/ftp.php3. Now, try it with the SppedTouch 
> modem and thanks for getting back to me
> 

That page appears to be just adverts for buying things. I wasn't planning on 
paying for the privilege of doing Mandrakes customer support for them...

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[speedtouch] Re: SpeedTouch and Mandrake 10.2 Limited Edition

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Yousry S. Abdel-Hamid wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have just successfully installed Mandrake 10.2 2005 Limited Edition. I have 
> a Speedtouch USB ADSL modem Rev. 4.0 (Sliver colored). The same problem with 
> connecting to the Internet.. The modem is recognized and all the leds are 
> green, but no connection either with the Mandrake Control Center or at 
> Reboot. I have carefully followed and executed every step in 
> (http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/mandrake/index.html) but NO WAY.. 
> Although the procedure is for 10.1 but this all what I have found for this 
> problem.

Where did you download Mandrake 10.2? I'd update the website if I could get a 
copy of Mandrake 10.2, but at the moment 10.1 is all I can find

Andy

PS, the issue is probably to do with loading the firmware. See 
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware.html

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The faq says about connecting and disconnecting:
> reconnect with "pppd call speedtch"
> 
> When I do so I get the message:
> pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch: No such file or
> directory
> 
> but the connection works.
> 
> What is the purpose of the missing file?
> 

Fedora doesn't use that file. To bring a connection down on Fedora use (as 
root) the command

/sbin/ifdown ppp0

And to bring it up again...

/sbin/ifup ppp0

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[speedtouch] Re: problems installing the linux kernel Speedtouch driver for Ubuntu HH

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Georges & AM wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install the Linux Kernel SpeedTouch driver  for Ubuntu Hoary 
> Hedgehog.
> I've got a revision 2 modem (the purple one).
> I followed the instructions from the document The Linux Kernel SpeedTouch 
> driver  for Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog, but I cannot get online.
> First: I am a newby as far as linux is concerned, but I do know how to copy 
> and paste and that is what I did from this doc
> 1.  The doc. says: "use the firmware-extractor to split it into two parts, 
> speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin" --> Question: do I have to rename 
> KQD6_3.012 and  ZZL_3.012 to those names after extraction or what?

No. The firmware-extractor binary will create speedtch-1.bin and speedtch-2.bin 
for you. If you've unzipped the KQD6_3.012 you should use the 
firmware-extractor to split it with the command

./firmware-extractor KQD6_3.012

> 2. Under lemma SECRETS it says: to create a textfile with the following line 
> (adjusted of course according to the registered username/password with my 
> ISP):
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' * 'password'.  ---> Question: do I have to use the quotes 
> or 
> do I have to leave them out. ---> Question: Do I have to use a space before 
> and after the asterisk (*).

Yes, the quotes are essential. So are the spaces.

> 3. After creating the bootscript (textfile called dial) I run the following 
> three lines.
> sudo install -m 744 dial /etc/init.d &&
> sudo ln -s ../init.d/dial /etc/rc2.d/S95dial &&
> sudo ln -s ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
> The doc. says I should be online now after a reboot, but no way...

If you didn't extract the firmware the modem won't work.

> 4. In the reference table it says for the Netherlands: PPPoA(?),( indeed 
> with a question mark), so I followed this line. --->Question: Would it do 
> any harm to follow the PPPoE line in the rebound?

That won't solve the problem of extracting the firmware.
> 
> General question: in case I did something wrong is there a way to 
> 'uninstall' this whole thing and make a fresh start? If yes what is the 
> syntax?

If you've not installed the firmware all you've done is create four plain text 
files and two symbolic links. If you want, you can delete them with

sudo rm -f /etc/ppp/{chap-secrets,pap-secrets,peers/speedtch}
sudo rm -f /etc/init.d/dial
sudo rm -f /etc/rc2.d/S95dial
sudo rm -f /etc/resolv.conf

Personally I don't think you should delete them. If you think you've made a 
mistake somewhere, open the file in a text editor and check you work.

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