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ALCATEL USB ADSL MODEM SPEEDTOUCH 330
ALCATEL USB ADSL MODEM SPEEDTOUCH 330
Nederlandse Versie
This is a short howto to get the speedtouch 330 by Alcatel/Thompson
working with Linux. The speedtouch 330 is a new type of USB-modem
which is given out by many providers. There were no good drivers to
get this modem going, but the new versions work ok.
Since I no longer have the modem myself I will not be able to help
people with installing this modem. However I will for now leave this
page up as a guide. Below I will describe the steps to take.
Here is a picture of the modem.
Speedtouch 330
Now for the actual steps to get things going:
0. ASSUMPTIONS
Before starting you should at least have:
- A kernelversion of 2.4.18 or higher
- pppd is installed
- A pppd version of at least 2.4.1
1. MODEM
Do not attach the modem untill step 7.
2. DOWNLOADING OF FILES
a) The
usb-modem microcode from Alcatel/Thompson
b) The usb-modem
drivers
c) Configuration files
In this Howto all these files have been put in /tmp/
3. USB-MODEM MICROCODE
I do all my work in /tmp, so please substitute /tmp with your path if
you choose a different location.
Unpack the microcode with:
cd /tmp/
tar -zxvf speedmgmt.tar.gz
Copy the microcode file to a permanent location. I chose
/usr/local/lib, but this is arbitrary.
cp mgmt/mgmt.o /usr/local/lib/
4. THE USB-MODEM DRIVERS
Unpack the drivers:
cd /tmp/
tar -zxvf speedtouch_1.2-beta2.tar.gz
Now compile the drivers:
cd /tmp/speedtouch/
./configure
make
make install
If all went well you should have pppoa3 and modem_run in
/usr/local/sbin/
5. MAKING THE SCRIPTS
The files which should be made/altered are:
/etc/ppp/peers/adsl
/etc/ppp/options.adsl
/etc/ppp/options (this one should be empty)
/usr/bin/start-adsl
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets
/etc/modules.conf
The files above are in the config_files.tar.gz package which were
downloaded in step 2. The will have to be put in the right
location.
This can be done as follows:
cd /tmp
tar -zxvf config_files.tar.gz
cd config_files
mkdir /etc/ppp/peers
cp adsl /etc/ppp/peers/
cp options.adsl /etc/ppp/
mv /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/options.old
(backup of the old options file)
cp options /etc/ppp/
cp start-adsl /usr/bin
mv /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.old
(backup of the old pap-secrets file)
cp pap-secrets /etc/ppp/
6. ALTER THE SCRIPTS
/etc/modules.conf can't be replaced, because this file contains
important stuff. The lines in the provided modules.conf have to be added
to the already exsisting file with an editor.
Finally the logonid and password have to be added to two files.
In /etc/ppp/peers/adsl replace username with your logonid. This is
usually something like username@provider-typeof-adsl.
It has to have quotation marks around it:
"username@provider-typeof-adsl"
In /etc/ppp/pap-secrets replace username with your logonid and password
with your password. This time no quotation marks around the username and
password!
The files are aimed at dutch users. This means that if you are not
using ADSL in the Netherlands, you may have to alter the supplied values
for vpi and vci in /etc/ppp/peers/adsl. The correct numbers can be found
pretty easily on the internet or in newsgroups.
This is what I know so far:
Country
|
vpi
|
vci
|
Netherlands
|
8
|
48
|
Great Brittain
|
0
|
38
|
Belgium
|
8
|
35
|
7. START ADSL-CONNECTION
Now it's time to plug in the modem. Now you can enter in a terminal:
start-adsl (or when
/usr/bin isn't in your searchpath type /usr/bin/start-adsl)
Now you should see a connection come up. Be patient because the process
could take 30 seconds or so.
8. REMARKS
As mentioned before I don't have the modem anymore. So unfortunately I
can no longer answer questions from people who are having trouble with the
install. Try the mailinglist on the sourgeforce-page of the speedtouch
drivermakers.
Last update: 2005-02-26 21:23
Author: Erkan Kaplan
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