[wschriem]

Is there from the Netherlands someone who has a speedtouch alcatel usb modem working with fc2 (the green one). The howto's I studied don't seem to work.. They are about 3 years old. My Kernel vesion is 2.6.1.358
My isp-account is hccnet. I could use a little help, since I am learning Linux since 2 month.

Willem Schriemer[/list]

[benjamin.choi]

Originally Posted by wschriem

Is there from the Netherlands someone who has a speedtouch alcatel usb modem working with fc2 (the green one). The howto's I studied don't seem to work.. They are about 3 years old.

I got my green manta modem working!

My Kernel vesion is 2.6.1.358

Are you sure you're not using 2.6.5-1.358, the version which comes with FC2?

My isp-account is hccnet. I could use a little help, since I am learning Linux since 2 month.

I'm also 2 months into Linux. However getting an Internet connection set up was first on my priority list since I would need it to download system tools and updates... and more importantly, browse LinuxForums for help :P

I hope you find this site useful: http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/fc2...touch_usb.html
I certainly did. However I had to recompile my kernel to support ATM and PPPoATM (I'm not sure if that was the right thing to do, but I couldn't make it work otherwise).

Here's how to recompile your kernel:

#make sure you installed kernel source from the Fedora CDs, otherwise get the latest version via "yum install kernel-sourcecode" and substitute "2.6.5-1.358" for "2.6.8-1.521"
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358
cd drivers/atm
gedit Kconfig #Add the following lines to the beginning of Kconfig (without the hash marks of course):
#config ATM
#	tristate "ATM"
#	depends on NETDEVICES
#	help
#	  ATM is needed for PPPoATM
cd ../..
make mrproper
make clean
make xconfig #here an X window opens... go and enable ATM and PPPoATM support under the "networking" menu
gedit Makefile #here you can edit the name of the new kernel. usually I edit the "custom" string out of the EXTRAVERSION variable so the newly compiled kernel overwrites the old one... beware that if your kernel compile fails you won't be able to boot Fedora so you might want to keep a separate kernel :)
make bzImage
make modules
su #if you're not running as root, become root now by typing "su", otherwise you can skip this command
make install
make modules_install
/sbin/init 6 #now reboot and choose the new kernel in GRUB

The modifying of drivers/atm/Kconfig is definitely a hack, but it appears to work rather well.

[wschriem]

Thanks Benjamin for your quick replay. I wil get werking on it en let you know how it turns out..