Alcatel Speedtouch and FC2

Thu Jul 29 06:36:25 UTC 2004

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>
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> 
> 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.