ADSL modem and "FATAL: module usbcore not found"
 

hi to everyone!

i'm totally new on this fedora and linux busisness and i'm trying to install my adsl modem.

i got the drivers (speedtouch-22-05-2004.tar.gz) and a firmware and i did all what they said in the readme. but when i'm trying to connect, i get an error message: "module usbcore not found"

i hope you can help me, and remember that i'm new on that, so please, detailed instructions are wellcome

thanks in advance!

Did you try modprobe usbcore? Also, Fedora Core 1 or 2? (I found core 1 ws OK and I got it to work with core 2 on this computer but on the computer upstairs I couldn't get speedtouch to work with core 2 at all) And which how-to have you been following?

hi,

yes, i tried modprobe usbcore and i got the same error message: module usbcore not found. i'm using fedora core 2, and the how-to is the one that came with the driver (speedtouch-22-05-2004.tar.gz)

Read this http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/fc2...touch_usb.html I didn't follow that, I used the speedtouchconf http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/ and I avoided your problems with modules by recompiling the kernel. Actually I had to recompile it to get the Nvidia driver working so I built the things I needed for the modem into the kernel just out of habit. But I wouldn't recommend recompiling the kernel if you're not familiar with it. Good luck.

yes, recompiling the kernel may need to be done

apparently, the usbcore module is not available

if you don't want to do a full kernel recompile, you can just compile the usbcore module (but this is not recommended, since you will probably need other modules as well) in /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/core; cd into that dir and do make and make install

kernel recompile isn't hard, just make sure you know what hardware you have on your system

there is a guide on the general forum for kernel recompiling; you should start with the normal fedora core kernel source instead of the mainline one