Re: FC2 and Alcatel Speedtouch

Hi! I had also a lot of problems setting up the alcatel speedtouch modem 4 FC2. As u experienced it there is a lot of useless HOWTOs cruising around in the inet. at least they seem to be 4 a lot of european people outsinde of gemany. And this was the big problem i had to solve. In Austria the modem uses PPP over ATM and somehow encapsulated a VPN like connection with PPTP. if this is the same in your country (schweiz?) then i have a solution 4 u. I finally found the sollution in a book i have to recommend very strongly to german nebie FC and SUSE users. the price is 60EUR http://www.kofler.cc/linux.html pg 871ff lists 2 possibilitys *pppoa3 driver from Benoit Papillault (thats what your howto is about) *pppoatm plugin (its an add-on for pppd, speedtch kernel module needed) i found that the second method is quite convenient. and will explain it here. At first connect your USB modem and be sure that the speedtch kernel module is loaded (lsmod!) It's included in FC2 and was loading automatically on my machine. Then u have to get the latest speedtouch drivers from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/speedtouch and install it rpm -ivh speedtouch-1.3-2.i586.rpm you need the "modem_run" program to initialize the modem. Then download the modem init file KQD6P2.eni here http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/download/index.html download the zip file KQD6_R204.zip. Unzip it to get the files KQD6P1.eni and KQD6P2.eni. The one you want is KQD6P2.eni (the bigger of the two). i copied this file to /lib to easier start ADSL at boot time (see later) now u can initialize your modem /usr/sbin/modem_run -k -f /lib/KQD6P2.eni Now u need a special version of pppd, because the one shipped with FC2 does not include the pppoatm plugin. download from here http://grumz.dyndns.org/ADSL_FC2/ and update your pppd rpm -Uvh ppp-2.4.2b3-1.GrumZ.i386.rpm linux-atm-2.4.1-1.GrumZ.i386.rpm Now u have to configure pppd. But before u can do this be sure to have an empty /etc/ppp/options. Create the file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl and edit it in the following way: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # /etc/ppp/peers/adsl # pppoatm specific options plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so asyncmap 0 # no compression noaccomp nopcomp noccp novj # normal Options lock noauth noipdefault defaultroute usepeerdns name "YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME" # in case of an interruption in the connection # reastablish connenction after 4 seconds persist holdoff 4 maxfail 25 # /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-adsl contains PEERDNS=yes ipparam "adsl" # dial-on-demand #demand #connect "/bin/true" #idle 300 #ktune # automatic test of the connection lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 2 # write PID in /var/run/ppp-adsl.pid linkname "adsl" # VPI/VCI (has to be in the last line!) 8.48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- don't forget to create a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-adsl with the entry PEERDNS=yes enter your internet account password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets start ADSL with pppd call adsl stop ADSL with killall pppd u have to be root to do that. I don't now a solution for sarting ADSL as a user. for example via the GNOME modem applet. Anyone any ideas? you might want to start your ADSL connection at the startup of your machine and stop the connection at the shutdown of your computer. create a file /etc/init.d/adsl and edit it in the following way --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # /etc/init.d/adsl # # chkconfig: 35 99 10 # processname: ADSL # description: starting ADSL ... # pidfile: /var/run/ppp-adsl.pid case "$1" in start) echo "starting ADSL ..." /usr/sbin/modem_run -k -f /lib/KQD6P2.eni pppd call adsl ;; stop) echo "shutting down ADSL ..." [ -f /var/run/ppp-adsl.pid ] && \ kill $(head -1 /var/run/ppp-adsl.pid) ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac --------------------------------------------------------------------------- now chmod the file to executable and add the new script to your boot process chmod a+x /etc/init.d/adsl chkconfig --add adsl SPEEDTOUCH ETHERNET MODEM I have to recommend all ADSL users the Ethernet version of the ADSL modem as it ist much easyer to configure! first u need a pptpclient http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ update your pppd rpm -Uvh ppp-2.4.3-0.cvs_20040527.1.fc2.i386.rpm and install the pptp client rpm -ivh pptp-linux-1.5.0-1.i386.rpm configure your ethernet card with an IP which is something between 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.254 but not 10.0.0.138 (this is the modem) and a Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 and NO Gateway Adress. test your modem with ping 10.0.0.138 Now u have to configure pppd. But before u can do this be sure to have an empty /etc/ppp/options. Create the file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl and edit it in the following way: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # /etc/ppp/peers/adsl # pptp specific options pty "/usr/sbin/pptp 10.0.0.138 --nolaunchpppd" # no compression nobsdcomp nodeflate # normal options lock noauth noipdefault defaultroute usepeerdns name "YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME" # in case of an interruption in the connection # reastablish connenction after 4 seconds persist holdoff 4 maxfail 25 # /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-adsl contains PEERDNS=yes ipparam "adsl" # dial-on-demand #demand #connect "/bin/true" #idle 300 #ktune # automatic test of the connection lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 2 # write PID in /var/run/ppp-adsl.pid linkname "adsl" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- don't forget to create a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-adsl with the entry PEERDNS=yes enter your internet account password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for the ADSL start at boot time use the same method like above but WITHOUT the line /usr/sbin/modem_run -k -f /lib/KQD6P2.eni The End :-) Please let me know if this helped you, as i was doing this HOWTO on a different machine than the one which gave me my speedtouch experiences. and so i couldn't test it. :-) ciao, nico. -- NEU: WLAN-Router f�r 0,- EUR* - auch f�r DSL-Wechsler! 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