ALCATEL Drivers installation for Linux

cd /usr/src
gtar zxvf linux-2.4.2.tar.gz
cd linux
patch -p1 < pppoatm-1.gz
patch -p1 < speedtouch-2.4.1-patch.gz

Don't forget to do a "make menuconfig" and select the following options:

[*] Code maturity level options / Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
[*] General Setup / Support for Hot-Pluggable Devices
[*] Networking options / Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) (EXPERIMENTAL)
[M] Network Device Support / PPP (Point-to-Point protocol) support
[M] Metwork Device Support / PPP over ATM (EXPERIMENTAL)
[M] USB Support / Support for USB 
[M] USB Support / Preliminary USB device file system (NEW)
[M] USB Support / {one of the usb controllers - if in doubt select the UHCI PIIX4 one}
[M] USB Support / Alcatel Speedtouch USB (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)

Once it compiles ok, install your new kernel (copy to your favorite location, reconfigure lilo and run /sbin/lilo) then, reboot.

gtar zxvf atm-0.78.tar.gz
cd atm
make
make install [as root]

gtar zxvf ppp-2.4.0b2.tar.gz
cd ppp-2.4.0b2
patch -p1 < pppd.patch.240600
patch -p1 < pppoatm-pppd-vs-2.4.0b2+240600.diff.gz
./configure
make 
make install [as root]

In the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, add the line

fti/xxx@fti * your_password

modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe speedtch
./mgmt 
modprobe pppoatm
modprobe ppp_generic
./pppd plugin plugins/pppoatm.so 8.35 user fti/xxx@fti defaultroute noipdefault

This solution is not perfect. Obviously, there are errors on this page, but I assume that the reader will get the picture and correct them. By using this solution, two main problems appears : upload is very limited (and tcpdump shows truncated IP packets in its ouput) and a kernel panic occurs at shutdown time. Anyway, this solution is a start point for further Open Source development.

Instead of using the binary 'mgmt', provided by Alcatel, you can use another utility, in GPL license : modem_init.

Thanks

• ALCATEL driver installation
• PPPoA support under Linux