[Nelug] Speedtouch USB modem

[James Le Cuirot]

I got one of these working on my Gentoo machine at the weekend, as it
happens. It looks like you're using devfs though, whereas I'm using the
newer udev. I would suspect that Mandrake 10 has the stuff it needs
enabled in the kernel so I'm not sure what it would be. I'm not 100%
sure if I'll come tomorrow, might do...

James

On Mon, 16 May 2005 18:20:34 +0100
Martin Ward <Martin.Ward at durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> I am replacing an ancient, and dying, laptop which I use as
> gateway/firewall etc. by a slightly less ancient laptop.
> 
> The old machine (Compaq Presario) runs Mandrake 9.2 with kernel 2.4.27
> and  my speedtouch modem (old green version) runs fine with it.
> 
> On the newer machine (Compaq Armada V300) I have installed 
> Mandrake 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8).
> 
> When I plug in the modem, I get these syslog messages:
> 
> May 16 12:04:03 kate kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using
> address 12
> May 16 12:04:11 kate modem_run[7472]: modem_run version 1.3 started
> by root uid 0
> May 16 12:04:11 kate modem_run[7495]: modem_run version 1.3 started
> by root uid 0
> May 16 12:04:11 kate modem_run[7506]: modem_run version 1.3 started
> by root uid 0
> 
> If I run it from the command line:
> 
> modem_run -v 2 -s -m -f /usr/share/speedtouch/mgmt.o
> 
> it returns immediately: no flashing lights on the modem,
> no messages in syslog (despite the -v 2 options) and
> no background modem_run process created.
> If I try to run pppd I get this:
> 
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppd[7630]: Using interface ppp0
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppd[7630]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppoa3[7870]: pppoa3 version 1.3 started by root
> (uid 0) May 16 12:37:28 kate pppoa3[7870]: Control thread ready 
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppoa3[7870]: pusb_claim_interface 1 failed 
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppd[7630]: Modem hangup
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppd[7630]: Connection terminated.
> May 16 12:37:28 kate pppd[7630]: Exit.
> 
> 
> I found this web page:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UKSpeedtouchDSLHowTo which says to
> add the line "speedtch" to file /etc/hotplug/blacklist
> 
> Now, modem_run still returns immediately, but "pppd call adsl2" 
> gets a bit further:
> 
> May 16 12:45:57 kate pppd[8704]: Using interface ppp0
> May 16 12:45:57 kate pppd[8704]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
> May 16 12:45:57 kate pppoa3[8889]: pppoa3 version 1.3 started by root
> (uid 0) May 16 12:45:57 kate pppoa3[8889]: Control thread ready 
> May 16 12:45:57 kate pppoa3[8889]: host  --> pppoa3 --> modem stream
> ready May 16 12:45:57 kate pppoa3[8889]: modem --> pppoa3 --> host
> stream ready May 16 12:46:02 kate kernel: usb 1-1: bulk timeout on
> ep7out May 16 12:46:02 kate kernel: usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_BULK
> failed ep 0x7 len 53 ret -110
> May 16 12:46:08 kate kernel: usb 1-1: bulk timeout on ep7out
> May 16 12:46:08 kate kernel: usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed ep
> 0x7 len 53 ret -110
> May 16 12:46:13 kate pppoa3[8889]: Received signal 15 (thread
> 1075118208) May 16 12:46:13 kate pppoa3[8889]: Woken by a sem_post
> event -> Exiting May 16 12:46:13 kate pppoa3[8889]: Read from usb
> Canceled May 16 12:46:13 kate pppoa3[8889]: Write to usb Canceled
> May 16 12:46:13 kate pppoa3[8889]: Exiting
> May 16 12:46:13 kate pppd[8704]: Terminating on signal 15.
> May 16 12:46:13 kate pppd[8704]: Modem hangup
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> My guess is that modem_run is not finding the modem for some reason.
> 
> I can bring the laptop and modem to the meeting tomorrow, if that
> will help. Without a phone line connected, the working machine can at
> least get the modem to flash its lights, so we could try to get that
> far with it.
> 
> -- 
> 			Martin