Alcatel Speedtouch and FC2
Fons van der Beek
fons at so-o.nl
Thu Jul 29 07:30:42 UTC 2004
be smart, by a router........................
it saves a lot of hassle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Kiefer" <kiefer at ifi.unizh.ch>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: Alcatel Speedtouch and FC2
> Thanks to Nico for the tutorial about Alcatel Speedtouch Modems and FC2.
>
> Unfortunately it did not work for me.
> The same errors appear when I try to establish the connection with
> "pppd call adsl"
>
> ...
> Timeout: Sending LCP Config-Requests
> ...
>
> This whole issue about USB ADSL modems and Linux is just a pain in the
> a**!
> I will buy an Ethernet Modem now.
>
> Thanks a lot anyway.
>
> Christoph
>
>
> > Message: 13
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:21:01 +0200 (MEST)
> > From: "Markus Nicolussi" <mcwimpy at gmx.at>
> > Subject: Re: FC2 and Alcatel Speedtouch
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com, fedora-de-list at redhat.com
> > Message-ID: <5184.1090923661 at www13.gmx.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > 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.
>
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