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So I've been using Linux for 2 years now and I love it...
I started with RedHat which always got me happy until I got a bit more demanding, then I started getting crashes.
So now I have a project for which I I need uptime...so I decided to change my server from RadHat 7.2 to Slackware 8.1 =)
This server kept my ADSL connection alive and some other services...
This whole thing takes 15mns to configure on RedHat.....but I've been fighting with Slackware for 3 days now....I can't find nearly as much information nor help on the net.
Here is what has been done:
Apparently Slackware does not support USB by default on it's kernels! (that I must say from a user point of view is not very "in the move"). So I decided to compile a new kernel...with all the USB options (since I can't seem to find a SiNGLE doc on which options to enable, module or not). Everything went great. So I installed the new kernel....
WHat's new...is that now I can finally mount the USBDEVFS. but my modem leeds still don't light up on boot time.
so I "lsmod".......and realise that the modules that I put in /etc/modules are not loaded! actually none of my modules are loaded...
I don't understand why it is soo complicated...as I am using very common stuff.
Please help me.....I must admit I am loosing faith....because I wonder how it can be so easy on one distro and so darn complicated on the other.
Hi. I'm new to these forums but I have a similar problem to the originator of this thread.
My /proc/bus/usb directory is empty.
I am trying to setup the speedtouch modem with slackware 8.1. I've followed the method for Benoits driver but when I run "modem_run -m -f /usr/mgmt.o" I get a message telling me the system can't see my modem and to look in /proc/bus/usb/devices.
But the devices bit is missing!!
I've tried adding "none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs none 0 0" to my fstab but still no joy.
I can now get modem_run to work (modem lights flash etc). Then I do pppd call adsl and ifconfig ppp0. The output from the latter shows a zero after every entry. I thought there would be an indication of the upstream and downstream speeds. Is this right?
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-13 n_hdlc
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-comperss-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
right, sounds like something with you ppp config isn't working... either that or you're not waiting long enough after connecting before using ifconfig.
after attempting to connect check the last entries in
/var/log/syslog
there may be some errors in there...
one other thing check your -vci -vpi settings in
/etc/ppp/adsl (i think)
they should be 0 & 38 respectively
I can check against my settings more in a couple of hours as i'm at work now...
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