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Deano
Thanks for the info, I was considering upgrading to mandrake soon anyways
(its so easy to download distros on ADSL, it would be rude not to have the
latest)
I did manage to get it working, but the stuff on sourceforge was WAY to
complicated. The kernel recompile was fine, but success with the drivers
was eluding me.

the SARILIB/SPEEDTOUCH route still had me baffled after 3 days ! :) 
I am reasonably linux-profficient, and I think that the fact that there were too many packages and patches to use.
Linux should be getting easier - That is not a good example of how to write a simple driver
 for a hardware device ! 

In the end I gave up on that cause of action, and downloaded the
alternative drivers (that don't need kernel recompile) by Benoit
papillault. ( http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index.en.php3 )
These compiled perfectly on my Redhat 7.0 and I knocked up a
couple of quick daemons to download the microcode and conect at boot
time .... works fine and I am using it right now.  The whole process took about an
hour.


Next question is: why is my connection speed 32% faster than DUN in
windows 2000 on the same PC... Not that I'm complaining   ;)
Cheers
Dan



> Yep, I'm using it. It serves two windows boxes and itself with fast
> always on internet. The stabilty is very good (if the modem likes your
> machine) i.e. I've only needed to restart the connection once this week!
> (and thats was for some problems at demon's end), I get > 55K downloads
> so everything working fine.
> 
> I got it working under windows first, downloaded the package off Alcatel
> website, then downloaded the 3 ISO's of Mandrake 8.1. Burnt the CDs,
> installed Linux (I removed my Redhat distro, Mandrake has support for
> the modem out of the box) and then copied the speedmgnt.o file from
> Alcatel into the correct directory (the Mandrake installer tells you
> where to put it). Worked first time.
> 
> I suspect you wanted to know how to upgrade an existing Linux distro,
> but I couldn't even compile the packages on RedHat 7.1 distro. Mandrake
> 8.1 is the way to go for an easy life.
> 
> Bye,
>     Deano
> 
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