Speedstream 5200 DSL

[UplnSmoke]

I'm trying to get my Speedstream 5200 to run on Knoppix 3.3. I was going to use the Alcatel Speedtouch USB but I'm about to analy rape Alcatel with my foot I'm so fed up with that modem.
I looked over the other threads about Alcatel and I think I saw a Speedstream Thread but it just reffered to the Alcatel USB.
First of all I'm running a disk boot or whatever ya' call it (I'm about 3 days new to linux but I learn with extreme speed) As I have already learned many of my first trials self taught. Any who can some one please explain to me what to do. I don't have much of a clue what to do but I can figure it out pretty fast.
I'm running it off of a disk so a friend of mine can do a "remote install" as he calls it, of Gentoo, I think... but first I have to get the modem ready so he can hook up to my computer. And it isn't working. I have lights flashing on my modem and I have a link to a download that is supposed to be my access manager that link being: ftp://download.sympatico.ca/hse/linux/
I think what I have to do involves that, but I dont know what to do with that, the readme says stuff about directories that arent there. It also says something about Redhat, and of course neither Gentoo or Knoppix are Redhat.
Basically I need a walkthough

[bulio]

yeah, I need a walkthrough aswell, I have the same modem and isp

[Loper]

I'm trying to get my Speedstream 5200 to run on Knoppix 3.3

First of all I'm running a disk boot or whatever ya' call it (I'm about 3 days new to linux but I learn with extreme speed) As I have already learned many of my first trials self taught. Any who can some one please explain to me what to do. I don't have much of a clue what to do but I can figure it out pretty fast.

Basically I need a walkthough

If you are booting from the CD, it's pretty easy--if you are using an Ethernet connection. I'm not so sure about USB, but you want to use Ethernet if possible, due to overhead issues.

Are you able to use Ethernet?
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[bulio]

no, no ethernet ports on my computer

[cyber_moron]

I have the same problem,same dsl modem speedstream 5200 and I'm try to get ethernet working on a Dell inspiron 4100 laptop as well as on my desktop.
on the desktop I connect the modem to the USB port and the USB light on the modem lights up properly, but then I don't know how to set it up.
I'm a total linux newbie (needless to say).
how would I go about setting up the connection?

thanks CM

[UplnSmoke]

I got it to work using either the noapic cheatcode, I also tried the alsa cheatcode but I don't know what one did it, I suppose I could just try them one at a time but that wont answer my next question; what do these cheatcodes do? If there is a guide to cheatcodes somewhere that might help me in the future as well. Oh and after that I just ran pppoeconf and it worked.

Edit: Guess I didn't look too hard last time, I found the guid to cheatcodes, alsa got my sound working and noapic only says that it skips certain hardware detection, but it doesn't say what hardware, and how would skipping something help it to detect my network card (wich I now know that it is the problem not my modem) So I guess my question is narrowed to what does noapic affect and how does it help if its NOT detecting something.

[OErjan]

why it helps not to detect something.
hmmm,
some hardware might be blocked/locked if incorrectly probed, this is not common but...