Following the instructions given on the pages that contain this link I've been using the modem without problems for about 2 years on Mandriva Linux 2006 and openSuSe 10.3. Having been given another older machine I installed Mandriva 2009, Suse 11.x, & Fedora Core 9. My experience goes like this:-
Mandriva 2009 With the modem plugged in (any USB socket) the system hangs and refuses to boot. Anybody else had this experience? SuSe 11.x The modem worked fine for a few months, but all the time I was installing SuSe system updates and eventually I lost my internet connection. The reason apparently being that modprobe cannot now find pppoatm. In /lib/modules there now exist 2 directories 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae and 2.6.27.7-9-pae. The first one of these is the one now used by modprobe and has no pppoatm module. I tried /lib/modules/2.6.27.19-3.2-pae/kernel/net/atm/atm.ko, but this did not work. There does exist the module /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-pae/kernel/net/atm/pppoatm.ko. Is there a suggestion as to how I can restore SuSe's internet connection? Fedora Core 9 Everything seemed O.K. but having installed the network monitor applet on the panel, it seems that the modem remains idle until the command /sbin/ifup ppp0 (see FAQ page) is issued. At least I'm not totally cut off. Regards. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:speedtouch-requ...@ml.free.fr?subject=unsubscribe