Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Duncan, thanks for your answers. Please find my comments bellow. I have downloaded speedtouch 1.3 yesterday, when it was released, and i must say that the speedtouch 330 is now WORKING FINE in 2.6.5 (Fedora Core1) ! It seems that some issues with the recent kernels may have been fixed. I will try the kernel module and ill report how it went.
Fri, 2004-06-11 at 07:59, Duncan Sands wrote: > Hi Sergio, > > > Duncan and all, can anyone explain why there is a problem with speedtouch 330 in > > kernels 2.6.3 and newer? > > What problem? Can you please be more precise. > > > I was looking at http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net but they also have no clear > > explanation. > > I doubt that these newer kernels implement USB core the wrong way... > > The USB core gets changed all the time and sometimes mistakes are made. So it could > be wrongly > implemented. But most likely is that the core follows the standard but the hardware > does not. This > happens a lot: some manufacturers test whether their hardware works with windows, > not whether it > implements the standard correctly. It is then a real pain to work out why things > aren't working with > linux. Ok, that wouldn't surprise me too much :) > > > Is the problem in the module itself, if so, why? > > There is almost certainly nothing wrong with the module. > > > Is the problem in pppd, as somenone mentioned in the internet? > > Who mentioned it, what did they mention? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=178269 http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/154168 http://www.hystedjp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05304.html These are the links that i have saved concerning recent linux problems, the second link mentions pppd but in fact it was another thread in some forum which i cannot now remember the right link.. also, please check the last link where it talks about patching a line in usb core kernel source file... someone also said about patching modem_run in a define (first link). > > > The kernel module, why doesn't it work correctly? > > It does. Most problems come from usbfs (used by modem_run to upload the firmware) > or from a mistake > in the core (core problems usually get fixed fast). In fact most of my spare time > right now is spent on getting > usbfs working better. > I asked this because i was unable to use the kernel module. My problem was loading the firmware with the module loaded, which failed... i made a search and i saw many people complaining about this and telling that the module should not be loaded while loading the firmware...(??) > > Sorry for asking all these questions again but there are no clear answers for > > these, neither in the FAQ neither in the forums... there seems to be a lot of > > confusion on these matters. > > Ciao, > > Duncan. -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar -- -- Type: image/png -- File: smiley-3.png Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
