speedtouch problems w/ kernel 2.6.10
 

When running the script speedtouch-start, it sets everything
correctly, loads the firmware, then it tries the last step which is to
run pppd. The command line that gets executed from the script is:

pppd call speedtouch-pppoe updetach

which internally calls:

pppoe -s -I `"/usr/local/sbin/pppoa3" -vpi 8 -vci 35 -b`

but the problem is that "/usr/local/sbin/pppoa3 -vpi 8 -vci 35 -b" returns NOTHING AT ALL, meaning pppoe fails because the -I option is not set, after all pppoa3 returned nothing.

Does anyone know what might be going on? This problem is only present when I'm running kernel 2.6.10.

Thanks

Hi, this problem had happened to me too.
I downloaded the speedtouch configuration tool from:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...ar.gz?download

and if you have the silver SpeedTouch, download the firmware file: rev4fw.zip, you can make a Google search on this file and yopu will easily find it.
Now you have the two files:
speedtouchconf-10-Nov-2004.tar.gz and rev4fw.zip, put them in your home directory.
Open a terminal, log as root " i.e. type: su - "
change your working directory to your home:
type:
tar -xvzf speedtouchconf-10-Nov-2004.tar.gz
after unpacking the file, copy the rev4fw.zip file to the folder:
speedtouchconf-10-Nov-2004
then move to the folder:
speedtouchconf-10-Nov-2004
type ./speedtouchconf

Finally, you are online!.

I hope this solution helps, and let me hear from you. Good Luck.

well as far as i know, the speedtouch-conf project really started to make it easier to configure the speedtouch driver that came w/ the main project because the main project lacked ease of configuration. But now, w/ the speedtouch-setup script, I think everything is really made easy. So there's no more need to use the speedtouch-conf right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

So I think the problem might be w/ the firmware that's loaded? Other than that, what could be different than the current files that I'm using now? Maybe the version of pppoe and pppoa?

Firmware speedtouch 330
 

You may be right about the speedtouchconf project, but what I've posted to you before was the actual soltion that I made to tackle this problem.
Actually, I've been here and there to find a solution, and this was for looooooong time, I've been visiting many forums and HOWTO pages but with no luck at all. Finally, I got this solution and I wanted every one to share me the moment of success!.
You may be using the wrong firmware or the wromg version of speedtouchconf project, and as I know your kernel version is 2.6.x and this version does not support the conf projects realesed in time earlier than june 2004. So I suggest you to stick with my procedure and I think you will have luck.
In the prev. post there is link to the right version of speedtouchconf project, and here is the link for the firmware:

http://www.speedtouch.com/support.htm

download it and go on!.
Good Luck!