Ubuntu and speedtouch (try the speedtouch package)

[Elliot F.]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 17:09 +0000, adel wrote:
> I have speedtouch 330 silver modem, in red hat 9 I use 
> speedtouchconf.sf.net script that install driver, files and set itself 
> to start at boot... no problems
> 
> in Ubuntu running (install gcc first) ./speedtouchconf.sh says /dev/ppp 
> not found, ok "mknod /dev/ppp c 180 0" then ./speedtouchconf.sh enter 
> your informations et voila... you are online

Is there any reason you're not using the speedtouch package that ubuntu
has?


elliotf /pt/lltf $ apt-cache search speedtouch
speedtouch - userspace driver for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL
Adapter
elliotf /pt/lltf $ apt-cache show speedtouch
Package: speedtouch
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 328
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md at linux.it>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.2-t20040511-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), ppp, libatm1
Filename: pool/universe/s/speedtouch/speedtouch_1.2-t20040511-3_i386.deb
Size: 95738
MD5sum: 94dccb8cfb09ac022e5e25a5d6847b01
Description: userspace driver for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL
Adapter
 This package contains userspace utilities and daemons necessary to get
 the Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL Adapter working in Linux without any
 kernel patches.
 .
 The drivers communicate with the adapter via usbdevfs in /proc/bus/usb.
 The 'modem_run' utility locates the adapter, initialises it, uploads
 the firmware, and monitors the ADSL line, and the 'pppoa3' daemon
 passes ATM frames between the ADSL adapter and the pppd process.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

Perhaps give that a try?  In general, apt-cache search is your friend.

> after rebooting there no internet!!! even doing 
> /usr/local/bin/speedtouch-start... it's says firmblah not found while 
> you can find it there at /usr/local/share/speedtouch/boot.v123.bin
> 
> I did ./speedtouchconf.sh again (mknod /dev/ppp c 180 0 again)... enter 
> informations again... online again... reboot... no internet... ok 
> ./speedtouchconf.sh chat chat... reboot... not internet (no surprise)! 
> this time I added "mknod /dev/ppp c 180 0" to speedtouchconf.sh, # to 
> lines where script ask me for informations, add needed variables 
> (ISP_LOGIN and so) then ./speedtouchconf.sh... wait... you are online
> 
> the problem now... how can I explain that to mom?
>