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1slipperyfish · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 10:54 am Post subject: speedtouch 330 problem?

please help me!!!
i stared to try and get my modem to connect yesterday at 7am but gave up at 10pm Shocked

and this morning i got up at 8am to make a good go of it but i still cannot get my modem to connect in mandriva Rolling Eyes

i have used the configuration wizard thing but every time i put a floppy in with the mgm.o on it but it keeps saying that it cannot recognise the mgm.o file even though it is definately there Confused

thanks in advance for saving my sanity Confused

paul
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: RE: speedtouch 330 problem?

Just as a matter of interest, does it insists on loading mgm.o from a floppy, or can you choose somewhere else? If so you could always copy the mgm.o file off the floppy disk.
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Guest · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject:

i have copied it into /tmp but the options are:- floppy - windows partition - do it later ?
paul

1slipperyfish · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

soooory but that was me i forgot to log on Rolling Eyes

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Rhakios · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:

I guessed.

You know 1sf (troll), having seen your posts both here and on the PCPlus forum, I find it hard to grasp exactly what procedure you are following, so it's a bit hard to offer any constructive advice.
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brian · Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:53 am Posts: 36

ditto

Guest · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

i posted in both forums two different procedures as i have been at it since friday i even got up in the night to have another go Rolling Eyes

as long as it works i'm not bothered which one i use Sad

all i want to do is connect to the internet without having to constanly reboot between windows and linux Crying or Very sad

the fact that i would try anything is a measure of my desperation Exclamation

so please kind sirs and madams take pity on a poor boy Embarassed

paul

1slipperyfish · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

sorry me again Rolling Eyes

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Rhakios · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

Is this one of the things you've tried?
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject:

it all goes swimmingly well untill i get to the
./speedtouchconf.sh part then it doesn't go any further saying "cannot find file " or some such like although the rev4fw is in the tmp file and i have not unzipped it as instructed Confused

i tried it about 10 times and i'm afraid colin was on his way to the back garden Mad

i think i'm doing something stupid wrong but i can't find what it is Rolling Eyes

how does the root console read this alcaudsl.sys when it's a tarball called rev4fw? or is that where i am going wrong Question

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Rhakios · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject:

Well, I was going to give this a whirl for you 1sf (troll), just to see how it goes, but unfortunately the script correctly identifies that I don't have a speedtouch modem attached to my computer.

Incidentally, you say rev4fw is in the tmp file, isn't it supposed to be in your speedtouch directory?, i.e. the one from which you are executing the script. If you don't understand about moving the files in the command-line way, just do it in the file manager.
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Guest · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

yes i have moved it manually rather than at command line the problem now is that it goes all the way through the initialising modem etc then says
mintex value not ok
failed because of modem_run error 235
i have looked at the help page which is http://speedtouchconf.sourcforge.net/troubleshooting.shtml
but which doesn't seem to work all this command line is all very well and good in fact i quite like going back to my javaring days but i don't know what these commands/errors mean Confused

i suppose it will come with pratice just like anything else Rolling Eyes

but if i don't get this modem thing working soon i think my wife might take the rolling pin to me Very Happy

as i have been on colin virually every waking hour since friday Rolling Eyes

paul

1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

sorry again sometimes i'm just logged in and sometimes i'm not Rolling Eyes

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Rhakios · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

Looking at the example session, at what point do you see the error you are getting?

Oh and are you sure it says "mintex", that looks like brake pads to me.
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

this is no time for jokes rhakios it's now very serious indeed Shocked

i have got to where the line that says (in the example)
apr 20 00:26:26:54 turin pppoa3[5064] modem --> pppoa3 --> host stream ready
which it repeats about three times then says i doesn't look as if it's connected Shocked

no sh#t

CHAP authorisation failure
ERROR reading from source device

it then mentions some files that i might want to remove but they are locked
do i have to log in as root to delete/remove these files?
i got this far by # two lines in one of the scripts as it said to in one of the how to's
any ideas Confused

if it wasn't for led zep i would have given up after two hours rather than the four and a half that i have been at it Rolling Eyes

as always any help would be appreciated Very Happy

the lines where