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.

(UsbAdslModem/SpeedTouch)

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 the Alcatel web site (site down - mirror to zip) and unpack it with the firmware extractor. If this looks complex, you can just download and install an unofficial firmware package

speedtouch-firmware.tgz or speedtouch-firmware_0.1-7_all.deb.

• Firmware (speedtch-*.bin.4) for the (silver) revision 4 modem.

wget http://ftp.linux.it/pub/People/md/warez/speedtouch-firmware.tgz
sudo tar xfvz speedtouch-firmware.tgz
sudo cp ./firmware/speedtch-1.bin.4 /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin
sudo cp ./firmware/speedtch-2.bin.4 /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin

or

wget http://ubudsl.googlepages.com/speedtouch-firmware_0.1-7_all.deb
sudo dpkg -x speedtouch-firmware_0.1-7_all.deb ./
sudo tar xfvz data.tar.gz
sudo cp ./lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin.4 /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin
sudo cp ./lib/firmware/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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