3lade Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 I have searched and found various posts about this modem but I need help installing and setting up the little blue/green ufo/stingray or whatever it is. I am running a Win98 machine and it connects to the BTOpenworld (sorry non UK readers) network. But want my MD9 machine to do it and then share the connection to the other M$ machines. I think I have installed the drivers, it knows the modem is there when I plug it in, the lights flash blink and then stay green but using the connection wizard in MCC it always fails to connect. Am I missing something. Do I have to modify some other files rather than use the MCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurb Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 For the UFO speedtouch I've got two links for you: The first is in french but very visual and easy: ( for mandrake 9.0) www.croucrou.fr.st/informatique/speedtouch_et_mandrake.php The second one looks difficult, that may put you off, but as you use madrake 9.0 you can skip all the kernel and usb -stuff : www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ Praise yourself lucky you've got the blue UFO and not the red 330 Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=6752 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Cheers all, I know what I will be trying today :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 hey omar, you might want want to copy the whole content on the linked post as that would be a little useless when the club-nihil barfs on the 18th of January. :smile: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Ok, how's this? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2060 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 To be honest I ran out of time the other day at work to sort it out. So I decided to try it at home. I sectioned off a part of my XP install (I know, I have not MDK installed at home yet) and installed MDK9. Must say it went really well, and quick, and I now have a happy little dual booter :) I went to follow all the instructions but came accross a problem already. When I plug the ufo in the USB light flashes red for a bit and then goes out, then nothing. I have checked the status and it doesnt know its there. I have installed the mgmt.0 file and everything but no joy. Still works in XP BTW: PC is 1.4 Athlon, 768mb DDR, MSI mobo with USB 1.1 ports, nVidia GF4 if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTurtle Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 what i used to make my speedtouch work was this. pretty simple but it worked fine, it emulates an ethernet card but i think the way this works may vary from country to country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 It has helped me test some BIOS settings but I still cant get MDK to see the damn thing It's not as if the cable is long? What are the settings for making a USB device 'plugable'? I have a feeling this is the problem. Or what can I loook for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Well it must have the trip to the pub but I seemed to have fixed it. Needed to boot Linux with noapic command and usb ports are now working :D Next problem or question: 1. I followed Steve Scrimpshires instructions and started ADSL via shell, but how can I get it start automatically on boot or on shortcut? 2. Also is there a way of displaying the status, ie the little network icon in M$ (I know I should not have said that ) but it helps me know whats happening. 3. The last and final one: firewalls. Do I need one on a personal PC and what should I get? Well I'm chuffed to bits so far 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 You can add the commands to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local if you want. Also, if you are staying connected with your aDSL all the time, then I would strongly suggest a firewall. Bastille-netfilter seems to do the trick for me, but I could not get any other firewalls to work, although there are plenty that people will suggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Works a treat. As it boots now the lights flash into life and I am connected my the time I log on. I have also solved my need for the network icon, run gkrellm and have it monitor ppp0. Simple if you use your head I downloaded, what I thought was Firestarter but I cant get that to run at present. But it will come :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3lade Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Once again, sorted. All I needed to do was run it as root! This whole superuser stuff will sink in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest metz2000 Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 Right then... I have mandrake 9.0. I read Steve Scrimpshire's post somewhere... when he was known as someone else (Omar / Umar or something ??). The thread was originally from another forum but was copied over here. Haven't got the link handy, but I have copied that page with the instructions to a floppy. At the moment I have two machines... a WinXp box and a mandrake 9.0 box. They are sharing a monitor/keyboard/mouse at the moment so I have to keep swapping the cables over (I will get a KVM switch once I manage to get Linux connected via ADSL). I am going to try and use the instructions from the thread I mentioned above and see how that goes. Don't be surprised to see me back here though, I've been all over the place trying to get Linux (various distros) to work with my speedtouch usb and so far no luck... :( I'll be back to let you know how it goes in about 1 hour. Thanks ppl, Metz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest metz2000 Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 No luck :( :x :x I got the following 'bash: modem_run: command not found" help, I am a total Linux n00b. EDIT: Why can't someone make it easy?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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