Alcatel/Thomson Speedtouch PC drivers?

The Belgain · 05-27-2005, 05:51 PM

Hi there,

I'm looking to set up my spare Linux machine as a router for my ADSL connection (the Linksys I have is just too flakey...). I've got all the other hardware sorted out, and for the modem I was hoping I could use an old "Speedtouch PC" ADSL modem I have lying around (this is the internal one, not the USB one: http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/prodpc.htm).

Now I've had a quick search on these forums and a Google, and it seems there are Linux drivers for the USB version, but not for the PCI version. What drivers can I use for this modem? Or is there just no way to use it under Linux.

Cheers guys...

APB_4 · 05-27-2005, 06:38 PM

This might help http://www.ahs-png.org/lintech/linux_hints_tips/ADSL/
I've found that if you whack in whatever you are looking for in speech marks and then linux in google you often find something useful. eg "Speedtouch PC" linux.
Good luck.

The Belgain · 05-27-2005, 07:20 PM

Well, unless there's any easier way of doing it I'll give it a go.

Has anyone here actually got one of these modems working? I'm running Slackware 10.0 with a 2.4.26 kernel by the way...

The Belgain · 05-28-2005, 06:51 PM

Well, I followed the instructions in the that link, and have successfully recompiled my kernel (2.4.26) with the necessary options, inserted the kernel module provided (which worked), and my modem is detected. Unfortunately, I can't test the actual connection, as I've forgotten the login password for my ISP (doh!).

I am running into one problem though: when using the new kernel, the files on my RAID5 array are corrupted. The array assembles and mounts sucecsfully and all the files are there, but they are corrupted (files fail CRC checks, etc.). Reverting back to my previous kernel fixes this (all files are fine).

The RAID array is on a Highpoint PCI SATA card, for which I had to compile drivers. Do I need to recompile them against the new kernel, even though it is the same kernel version, just with different configuration?

[edit]Yup, that worked fine...[/edit]

The Belgain · 06-04-2005, 10:37 AM

Hi there. I'm still trying to get my PCI ADSL modem working under Linux, and have got some of the way there but still haven't managed to get a connection up...

I'm following this following guide to get the modem working (this is almost identical to the Itex quide): http://debian.helix.net.nz/howto/ite...oa-2.4.19.html

Now I've managed to recompile my kernel, and compile and install pppd with ATM support. I've inserted the kernel module for the ADSL modem and it seems to work. I get the modem being detected in dmesg:

Code:

card #0 - current modem state : ACTIVATING.
card #0 - current modem state : INITIALIZING.
itexadsl: modem line connected. (card_no: 0)
itexadsl: upstream latency - fast
itexadsl: downstream latency - fast
itexadsl: card #0 - data rate: 288 / 2272  (line rate: 376 / 2652) kbps
connect_bh:tx cell per msec 1
connect_bh: upstream rate 288
card #0 - current modem state : SHOWTIME_L0.

It's correctly detecting the line, and picking up the correct speed (this is 2MBit). I've modified the password files and other ppp settings as in the instructions in the link above.

When I run pppd, it gives me no error messages, but doesn't seem to do anything. I don't get any extra connection appearing in ifconfig (I still only have "eth0" and "lo"; n
o ppp0). I get the following output in /var/log/messages, which looks right, and am not seeing any errors:

Code:

Jun  4 16:10:06 fileserver pppd[999]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so loaded.
Jun  4 16:10:06 fileserver pppd[999]: PPPoATM plugin_init
Jun  4 16:10:06 fileserver pppd[999]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm
Jun  4 16:10:06 fileserver pppd[999]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS

Any ideas what might be going wrong? Any log file I can look at to figure it out? Help would be much appreciated, as I'm getting quite close but still not there yet...

The Belgain · 06-04-2005, 01:47 PM

Output of lsmod shows that the Itex driver is inserted ok, but doesn't seem to be used at all:

Code:

root@fileserver:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
itex1577-2.4.16       838304   0  (unused)
nfsd                   67376   8
uhci                   24444   0  (unused)
usbcore                58508   1  [uhci]
sk98lin               145032   1
hptr1540               47992   4
ide-scsi                9328   0
agpgart                43940   0  (unused)

And the modem doesn't seem to have an IRQ... should it have?

Code:

root@fileserver:~# lsdev
Device            DMA   IRQ  I/O Ports
------------------------------------------------
ATI                            d800-d8ff
cascade             4     2
D-Link                       f800-f8ff
dma                          0080-008f
dma1                         0000-001f
dma2                         00c0-00df
fpu                          00f0-00ff
hpt374                   10
ide0                     14  01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6   fcd0-fcd7
ide1                     15  0170-0177 0376-0376   fcd8-fcdf
Intel                        7000-701f 8000-803f fcd0-fcdf fce0-fcff
itexadsl                       e400-e4ff
keyboard                  1  0060-006f
Mouse                    12
NIC                       5
PCI                          0cf8-0cff d000-dfff e400-e4ff
pic1                         0020-003f
pic2                         00a0-00bf
rtc                       8  0070-007f
serial                       02f8-02ff 03f8-03ff
SK-98xx                  11
SysKonnect                     f800-f8ff
timer                     0  0040-005f
Triones                      f000-f0ff f400-f4ff fca0-fca7 fca8-fcaf fcb0-fcb3 fcb4-fcb7 fcb8-fcbf fcc0-fcc7 fcc8-fccb fccc-fccf
usb-uhci                  9    fce0-fcff
vesafb                       03c0-03df

Am getting quite stuck here....