[Klug-general] Mode Connection

[Karl Lattimer]

On 7 May 2006, at 17:57, Peter Apps wrote:

> I've finally got around to getting Broadband. Since I seem to have
> acquired 3 BT Voyager 105 modems I thought I would start off using  
> one.

How exactly does one acquire 3?

>
> Network Device Control in my FC5 system doesn't seem to configure USB
> modems - only Ethernet connections.

A quick google turns up this, http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/index.php? 
lang=en&id=172

looks like you use the eciadsl driver and firmware. The reason that  
no USB ADSL modems and in fact most ADSL modems aren't supported by  
fedora out of the box is purely because of licensing issues. The same  
issues which prevent microsoft from shipping drivers for these  
devices. Fedora/Redhat play it careful with this kind of thing and  
its best to do so when you're a major distributer.

It looks like the modem is supported, but it may be difficult to set  
up. I will help if I can as I have lots of experience with PPPoA,  
PPPoE and ADSL on fedora. The plus points here is that fedora ship a  
kernel with PPPoA support (which is most likely what you'll be using)  
and they also ship a version of PPP which supports PPPoA. Lots of  
distributions still don't do this and it makes it hard to configure  
ADSL modems without it.

Once you have the driver installed it shouldn't be too difficult to  
configure, bare in mind I've only ever setup ADSL on the command line  
but it should go something like this, once you've added the driver in  
(it may be available from a yum repository) goto system ->  
administration -> new xDSL connection -> if the driver is loaded it  
should appear in the ethernet device list. However as I've never used  
the GUI i can't be sure.

Alternative configuration requires a little hacking with /etc/ppp  
scripts and configurations, a small ppp-on/off script and various  
other gubbins which doesn't take too long.

If you still can't get it working, then try a connexant ADSL modem,  
they work pretty well or alternatively a Sangoma S518 is an expensive  
but perfect solution.

Hope this helps

K,