Alcatel Speedtouch USB Modem on Debian Sarge

[jonesypeter]

Help!

I am tearing my hair out!

I have moved from Fedora to Debian.
When I had Fedora I used this site and it worked fine!

http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ But it does not seem to mention Debian.

I installed with Kernel 2.6 and have been trying to get my Alcatel Speedtouch (Silver) working.

I got a reply from a forum which said:



First, get the firmware package from
http://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/md/warez/ .

kernel < 2.6.10: install the speedtouch package and read README.Debian.
kernel >= 2.6.10: nothing else is needed.

Then, look at /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/ .



Sadly, I am non the wiser!! What would happen if I had 2.6.10? Surely it would still need configuring? Can I download 2.6.10 from my windows PC, burn to CD and load up on Debian with Apt? If so how.

What I am after is a step by step guide. My VCI numbers are 0,38

Thanks ever so much!

Peter Jones
Bognor Regis
UK

[Aris]

Alcatel Speedtouch does not have an eth prompt?
I think, that it does.

-- Aris V.

[bullone]

I have got the same problem...what do you intend for eth prompt (ethernet?)

my problem is similar...i tried to create a network connection but (I use kde on DebSarge) i wasn't able....i need ATM packages or i should create a sort of ISDN connection?

Thanks!!!

[jobezone]

Help!

I am tearing my hair out!

I have moved from Fedora to Debian.
When I had Fedora I used this site and it worked fine!

http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ But it does not seem to mention Debian.

I installed with Kernel 2.6 and have been trying to get my Alcatel Speedtouch (Silver) working.

I got a reply from a forum which said:



First, get the firmware package from
http://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/md/warez/ .

kernel < 2.6.10: install the speedtouch package and read README.Debian.
kernel >= 2.6.10: nothing else is needed.

Then, look at /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/ .



Sadly, I am non the wiser!! What would happen if I had 2.6.10? Surely it would still need configuring? Can I download 2.6.10 from my windows PC, burn to CD and load up on Debian with Apt? If so how.

What I am after is a step by step guide. My VCI numbers are 0,38

Thanks ever so much!

Peter Jones
Bognor Regis
UK

Perhaps with "kernel >= 2.6.10" they meant that the driver is included in recent versions of linux? And yes, you can download the kernel-image package version you need, copy it, and use

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dpkg -i kernel-image-***

to instal it. It may have dependencies, but I don't know.