I am using the same firmware for both XP and Linux, But that's a good point I'll try some different versions, I'd completely forgotten about the Firmware I've been updating the sourceforge drivers everytime a new version becomes available, but I've never changed the firmware...Doh

Thanks I'll give that a go.

Given the time I've spent mucking about with this I really should just go out and buy an ADSL Router, but it's become personal now :o) anyway a Router is a waste at home as I only have one machine here. If lots of other people were having this problem I'd just accept that the Alcatel Modem doesn't work very well under Linux and purchase another solution, but seeing as everyone else seems happy with the speedtouch drivers I've GOT to get it working otherwise it's beaten me.

and I don't like losing...........

On Saturday 21 September 2002 14:15, Adam Bower wrote:

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:12:45PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:

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Also why is it that I have never read (on Usenet, Speedtouch Mailing lists or Linux Mailing lists) of anyone else having this problem. It must be something specific to my system, I just don't know what.

some people have experienced different connections with different versions of the modem firmware you could try.... thinks.... are you using the same modem firmware with linux as you are with win XP? there are about 6 or 7 versions try using your mgmt.o file from WinXP with modem_run (or whichever bit it is) if not you could try different firmwares. To see if the files are different you can use md5sum under linux. (md5sum mgmt.o) and see if you get different outputs from that)

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Incendently what is the difference between usb-uhci and uhci ? Which one should I be using to connect my ADSL Modem. (not that it seems to make any difference to this problem)

well use which one works or works better than the other one, I have to use usb-uhci and the uhci one doesn't work with my modem for some reason although it will work fine with other usb devices.

Adam

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