Speedtouch Configuration / News: Recent posts

The 26th May and 8th June 2006 releases contain prebuilt binaries and as such may have trouble compiling on other systems. The 12th June 2006 release fixes this. You can also work around the problem for yourself by running "make clean" in the speedtouch-1.3.1-sgp directory - that is:

$ cd speedtouch-1.3.1-sgp
$ make clean
$ cd ..
$ ./speedtouchconf.sh

FC2, Mandrake 10, SuSE 9.1, etc reported working with 19 June 2004 release.
To avoid errors on reboot, try setting "LOAD_USBCORE=0" in /etc/speedtouch.conf pending a further update.

No major changes over the 20 Jan release, but does some extra checks - for the /etc/init.d vs /etc/rc.d/init.d directory, and for any active kernel mode drivers (this is the user mode driver)

The 07 Dec 2002 release fixes a bug in the 05 Dec release. The 05 Dec 2002 release has been hidden because of thisbug.

A new project on SourceForge, a simple shell script, which has been around for a few months now with good results, helps users configure their Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Modem.

An existing project (speedtouch.sourceforge.net) has all the code and documentation you need to achieve this task; however, you need to read the documentation, and understand something about PPP, ADSL, and USB.

This script takes away the pain, by confirming that your system is capable of using the modem, checking the hardware details, creating the dialup scripts, and connecting you to the internet.... read more