[Gllug] Alcatel speedtouch modem: time to ditch Suse?

[will]

Peter John Cameron wrote:
> I've spent the best part of every evening since last Monday trying to get
> this modem working with Suse 8.1 when I could have been doing some
> development. All I get are LCP timeouts. I've decided not to waste any more
> time with this. I now have two options:
> 
> 1. Buy another modem or router (modem was free with Tiscali)
> 2. Ditch Suse and try Mandrake.
> 
> Suse's record of quality control IMHO is not exactly brilliant (e.g. 8.1
> didn't even pick up my CD drives correctly on installation). I've heard that
> Mandrake copes with the modem. Can anyone verify this?

I used mandrake 8.something and the alcatel speedtouch was configurable on 
install and worked fine when I used it.  I now use Debian (on a LAN) so I don't 
know anything about the more recent Mandrake releases.

Will.


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