Bookmark site for Speedtouch ADSL

[JohnT]

There has been so much of this lately. I found this excellent link with opensource drivers and excellent documentation, so bookmark for your friends using Speedtouch.


http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/docs.en.html

[RuiP]

Yes, good!
That link's to the official open source driver for the Speedtouch firmware loader and USER LAND driver for PPPoA (and PPPoE only experimental).

For a more complete bookmarking here are 2 other ways:

for the oficial KERNEL DRIVER MODE:
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/index.html

for a simple (no complilation) installation and easy (GUI) configuration, I recommend the T. Cogumbreiro's gpppoe-conf Speedtouch Suite:
http://s1x.homelinux.net/gpppoe-conf.php
(It's just uncompress the tar.gz and it's done it! That will do both the userland and kernelmode with an automatic choice from software)

(there is too a line script named SpeedTouchConf here:
http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/
but uses only the userland mode and kernel mode is better since kernels >= 2.4.22 have the drivers built in.)

For 2.6 kernels its generally necessary to rebuild the kernel (for FC2 is!) I post a mini How-To on this at this thread:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1330

good luck and lots of fun.

[RuiP]

Some few details yet to say:

All sites that the links point to seems to skip some minor details that always happen to me (when use the kernel mode minor=connected-but-not-net-surf-capable) and I had install it a lot (RH, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, from 8 to 10, 1 and test2...)

file /etc/ppp/option never had by default the falloing line (A MUST):
usepeerdns

file /etc/resolv.conf must have too what is inside /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. I always have to add following lines to the /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
where xxx... stands for primary dns of my ADSL provider and yyy... stands for the secondary. Only then is everything ok.

If you want to use the userland driver WITH PPPoE ADSL service you must do that patch and procedure:
http://www.prout.be/ECI/speedtouch.html
(Benoit Papillault seems to patch his new drivers, 1.2 version, but neither new files pppoa2 or pppoa3 works for me, only modem_run)

hope this will be of any help to anyone who browse this foruns in despair (I did it and learn a lot. Linux IS great!)

THANKS for everything!!!