[Nelug] Speedtouch USB modem

[Richard Patterson]

Richard Patterson wrote:

>Martin Ward wrote:
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>>On Monday 16 May 2005 18:33, James Le Cuirot wrote:
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>>>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...
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>>I am happy to consider different mechanisms for driving the modem,
>>up to and including installing a different distribution.
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>>I have considered getting an adsl router instead, but surely
>>the combined forces of NELUG are up to cracking this problem?? :-)
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>I got the SpeedTouch 300 working in Gentoo without a problem... I don't
>have an original speedtouch.
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>I'll install Mandrake 10.1 on a spare PC here, see if i can get the
>ST300 working, it'll be the same process... Give me an hour or so.
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>Regards
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>Richard
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Ok, got Mandrake 10.1 installed... Can't disconnect my ADSL from the
router at the mo, but everything else looks ok... If you're coming
tonight, you could bring the laptop & modem, we'll have a look at it then.

I think modem_run no longer stays in memory due to the driver in the
kernel...

Have you tried one of the dedicated firewall distros? IPCop, Smoothwall,
etc.

Regards

Richard