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.speedtouchdsl.com/driver_upgrade_lx_3.0.1.2.htm 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] (e.g.: dpkg -i speedtouch-firmware_0.3012k.deb).
- 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 gksudo gedit /etc/ppp/peers/adsl to include the username given to you by your ISP and the VP and VC identifiers 0.38 (they may differ for other ISPs).
Edit the pap-secrets and/or chap-secrets files 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" "*" "PASSWORD".
After the boot, you will be able to start the connection with the usual commands (e.g. pon adsl).
(FIXME: document how to create an udev script to automatically start the connection after the modem has been initialised.)