Want to use USB for my dsl modem
 

I have recently bought the jetspeed520 adsl router and i want to use USB to connect it to my PC ( not ethernet ) under suse9.2 . I have googled to many sites and searched in many forums but i cant find something helpful. The manual has no reference to linux setup. I have setup successfully the router through ethernet in the past , but right now i need to connect it through USB, because the ethernet is reserved by another PC . Please dont reply me asking why i dont use ethernet or that I should buy a hub/switch. Any help will be appreciated. Thanx in advance...

For the record, I have never seen a dsl modem that would allow one computer to be connected via usb and another via network.

At the moment i use USB and i am online using windows XP and the other PC uses the ethernet and is online too using linux. The question is can i make it use linux under USB ?

i've never heard of the jetspeed modem, and whether its USB port can be used under Linux depends entirely on a driver being available. on your linux machine, plug the modem into the USB port, and from a console window as root, issue 'lsusb' and post back the results - could do with seeing if the modem uses a common chipset...

if not, then I think you'll be stuck with using the ethernet port. is there any reason why you couldn't add a second ethernet card to your machine? it would be a cheap and easy way round your problem (assuming it's a desktop machine)...

I will be posting a really big reply. Sorry for that.

Output of lsusb was :

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bf1:8005 Intracom S.A.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Output of lsusb -v was ( I only write down Device 003 which is for my router, others are excluded for convenience) :

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bf1:8005 Intracom S.A.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 2 Communications
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0bf1 Intracom S.A.
idProduct 0x8005
bcdDevice 0.14
iManufacturer 1 56696B
iProduct 2 45746830
iSerial 3 6162
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 52
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 200mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 3
bInterfaceClass 10 Data
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0020 bytes 32 once
bInterval 100
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 bytes 64 once
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x05 EP 5 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 bytes 64 once
bInterval 0



So I see it identifies my USB device . Any ideas ?