As many of you have suggested, i tried to set up the modem by using the mandrake control centre, unfortunetly this did not work. So as someone else suggested, i just downloaded the firmware from source fourge. I have got it on cd and have saved it onto my linux box. I have got a virtual terminal open and type su and my root password to get into root, but i know i have to enter something after this.

Note i just saved the firmware onto the computer and not in any specific directory.

The below is reproduced from a post by lets-eat-gary at the mandrakeusers site. I can confirm this works with 10 Official and 10.1 Community......Very Happy

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Hi people,

Just thought i would how i got the modem working on my machine as most people who have broadband in the UK will have this modem and most mandrake 10 users will be using the 2.6 kernel. I have seen other howto's but i only got mine working using advice from a combination of howto's.

Go here

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=68502

and down load the latest speedtouchconf.tar.gz

download the firmware from here

http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/driver_...lx_3.0.1.2.htm

(unless you have a silver modem , if so go here

http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/rev4fw.zip)

untar the speedtouchconf.taz.gz

go to the newly created directory and copy the firmware.zip file to it.

edit the speedtouchconf.sh file and comment out the following lines (by putting a # at the start of the lines that you want to comment out)

# if [ -z "${USB_TYPE}" ]; then
# echo $"No USB Bus found!" | tee -a $LOGFILE
# error=`expr $error + 2`
# fi

become root and ./speedtouchconf.sh

follow the instructions.....

you will have to enter your username and password and your vpi/vci
( - in the uk its 0 38 )

set it to load at boot

reboot

you're (hopefully) online

HTH

D

Most users on this site say you do not need the tar ball, u just need the firmware, nothing else. As i said im following the guide at http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/, im as far as coppying the firmware onto cd and puttin it onto my linux box, i have it im my normal user folder, so then what should i do