Introduction

This document explains how to set up a DSL broadband connection for people living in the UK using a Thomson Speedtouch 330 USB modem or other similar modems supported by the speedtch driver.

Instructions

• With modern kernels (>= 2.6.10) you do not need anything other than the ppp and libatm1 packages. The speedtouch package is not needed.

• Download the modem firmware from [http://www.speedtouch.com/download/drivers/USB/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip the Alcatel web site] (site down - [http://www.martinp23.com/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip mirror to zip]) and unpack it with the [http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware-extractor firmware extractor]. If this looks complex, you can just download and install [http://people.debian.org/~md/ an unofficial firmware package]

[http://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/md/warez/speedtouch-firmware.tgz speedtouch-firmware.tgz] or [http://ubudsl.googlepages.com/speedtouch-firmware_0.1-7_all.deb speedtouch-firmware_0.1-7_all.deb].

sudo wget http://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/md/warez/speedtouch-firmware.tgz
sudo tar xfvz speedtouch-firmware.tgz

• Copy firmware for the (silver) revision 4 modem.

cd firmware
sudo cp speedtch-1.bin.4 /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin
sudo cp speedtch-2.bin.4 /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin

• After installing the firmware you may unplug and replug the modem to load it.
• Copy the /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/peers-pppoa file to e.g. /etc/ppp/peers/adsl. The following command will preform this action:

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/peers-pppoa /etc/ppp/peers/adsl

• Edit with

sudo gedit /etc/ppp/peers/adsl

to include the username given to you by your ISP and the VP and VC identifiers 0.38 (Poland, TPSA neostrada tp 0.35) (they may differ for other ISPs).

• Edit the

sudo gedit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

file (in /etc/ppp/) and update them with the username and password provided by your ISP by adding to each a line in the format

"USERNAME@ISP" "*" "PASSWORD"

and/or

sudo cp /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

• After the boot, you will be able to start the connection with the usual commands

pon adsl

• (FIXME: document how to create an udev script to automatically start the connection after the modem has been initialised.)

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