Speedtouch

[Nuno Ferreira]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 14:22 +0200, Matthew Laver wrote:
> I haven't written for a while when i did I asked about the simplest
> way of getting the Speedtouch USB silver modem to work on Ubuntu.  I
> kind gentleman suggested I try the speedtouch package on Universe and
> so I have done. 
> 
> It is indeed very simple and the readme pretty much explains
> everything.  It seems to work when I boot up, with the lights
> flashing, however once it has loaded I still have to run 'pppd call
> adsl updetach' to get it to finally connect.  
> 
> Is there a way of getting it to do this for me on boot?? Maybe editing
> the hotplug script??

I just posted yesterday what I had to do to get my modem to work (see
thread with "Accessing the internet with a Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL
modem" subject) and said that something should be done to automate it
more, your mail is just one more proof that it is not trivial.
If you got it to the point where running pppd works, you should create a
file /etc/default/speedtouch and add a line with PPPD_PEER="adsl", this
will do the equivalent of "pon adsl" that I think is what you're after.
-- 
Nuno Ferreira