New to knoppix internet connection with USB help please

[drb]

Chrisfer - responded to your message but ot sure if it sent properly so added below :

There is a silver and maroon speedtouch 330. The method appears to work for both (the silver has historically been the more difficult). If it's not the 330 you'll have to Google a bit more. LiveCD forums are not the best for such specific information. I don't think any LiveCD will work first time with a Speedtouch ADSL modem (Kanotix used to which is why I went to it rather than Knoppix); this is primarily a software modem where the firmware has to be loaded each time.

I eventually went for an ADSL modem router to allow wireless access from a second laptop. Kanotix just picked up the router with no configuration at all.

Kanotix is a fantastic LiveCd; it's even better as a HD install. Took me 30 minutes to set up partitions and then 15 minutes to install. No problems in three months since the install (even after three kernel upgrades and a daily distribution upgrade). The Kanotix forum is also excellent.

drb

[TheBoyMole]

For all those that are having problems connecting a Silver Speedtouch 330 to the internet with Knoppix, I suggest you give this a try (I posted this in the previous thread "Speedtouch USb (Idiots guide, by an idiot!)")

"I just thought I'd add my experiences to this Thread, as I too found the myriad of different driver instructions/projects (all very similarly named, speedtch, speedtouch, speedtouch-conf etc!.) on the net quite confusing. I've written in such a fashion that I hope someone totally new to Linux will understand:

This is my setup, and how I finally got it working:

Using a Toshiba Laptop (fairly old, 1ghz celeron), with a silver speedtouch 330 USB modem, and the latest LiveCD of Knoppix (4.0.2).

Starting in Windows, I downloaded the speedtouch-usb script from here: http://christophe.delord.free.fr/en/adsl/

Then, I copied this into a directoy on my hard drive c:\temp\speedtouch\.

Then, I rebooted and inserted the Knoppix liveCD.

Once Knoppix had loaded, I clicked the Knoppix icon at the bottom of the screen, and under Services I chose to set up a persitent home directory on the hard drive, using about 50mb of space. Once this was complete, I open Konqueror, and browsed to the temp\speedtouch directoy on my "c drive" (now called hda1). Then, I right-click in the directory display to obtain the "Actions" menu. One of the actions you can perform is to open a Terminal window here. Click this to open up the Terminal. Then type "ls" to list the directoy contents and verify that the "speedtouch-usb" file is actually there. Then, its simply a case of typing speedtouch-usb and pressing Return.

The script will then run. First it should detect your modem, and display the version of the Linux kernel that you are running. The script will then proceed until a dialog pops up prompting you to choose your VPI/VCI numbers. For the UK, this is the 0,38 option. Then click OK. The script should continue until another dialog box appears, this time asking you for a "connection identifier". Into this dialog you need to enter the username for your ISP connection. For example ABC123@xtreme3.pipex.net. Then, click OK, and another dialog will appear asking you to enter a password. Enter the password for your ISP connection. Then click OK.

Now, if all is well... the script will attempt to connect to your ISP. If it fails with a time-out message, I'd recommend running it again. If its successful, it will finish with the message "You are connected".

Then, you can close the terminal window and open up FireFox/Konqueror and start browsing!

Im not 100% sure the step of creating a persistent home directory is required, but I found without that step I seemed to get error messages about the "read-only filesystem".

I hope this helps somebody out there."

[chrisfer1991]

Thanks for that tip. I will find the codes for the US of A and hope thatit works for my black, manta-ray shaped Speedtouch even though Im pretty sure its not a 330. If it works I promise to se my powers only for good:never evil, etc. etc. etc.

[robibob]

Hi

I am also an USB-Modem-User with Knoppix-4.0.2 in LiveCD-Modus.

After start-up I have to type in the shell:

sudo modprobe usbnet
netcardconfig
-> Yes

... and You are surfing.

Bob