Alcatel Speedtouch and Suse 8

[m0th3r]

There are a bastion of hits is you search the mighty Google for how to's when it comes to installing the Speedtouch USB adsl modem. I tried pretty much all of them and never got anywhere. Most of them are confusing to the new user and sometimes just don't work.

Now, I havn't tried this method on any other distro but you never know

All you need to do is look at the actual Suse knowelge base and find this

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/configSpeedTouch.html

follow this TO THE T.

However it doesn't stop there. For some reason, unbeknown to me and many other people the modules don't load. If they arn't you'll get the following from the Kinternet log when you try to connect

pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded.
pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init
pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options
pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:0.38
pppd: connect(0.38): No such device
pppd died: Fatal pppd error (exit code 1)

as root type tail -f /var/log/messages. If you see the line "no modules for USB product 6b9/4061/0" then this confirms that the modules arn't being loaded.

you need to type as root the following;

modprobe -k speedtouch
/usr/sbin/speedmgmt &

and you'll see the modem lights going through the motions. Result!

However, unless you add the above two lines to your boot.local file you'll have to type them in everytime you boot into linux.

Now I have linux online I might never go back to windows...