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Benoît Papillault, Last update: 2001-12-22

Warning

This page is outdated and is kept only for historical reasons, you can find the latest `speedtouch` driver on sourceforge, at the following address: http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/.

There are two drivers for Speedtouch USB/330 modem under Linux:

a kernel driver, available here: http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/
a usermode driver, available here: http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/

Driver installation for the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem

This page describes the installation of a driver developed with the goal of being able to use the modem without recompiling the linux kernel.

If you were searching for a tutorial concerning installation of the Alcatel drivers, I direct you to Johan Verrept's tutorial.

Download

The driver is currently available in source form only:

speedtouch-09042001.tar.gz
speedtouch-13042001.tar.gz
speedtouch-14042001.tar.gz
speedtouch-26042001.tar.gz
speedtouch-09052001.tar.gz
speedtouch-21062001.tar.gz
This latest version also works on FreeBSD, I direct you to François ROGLER page for the installation process. This version includes the support for modem whose references where like 3EC XXXXX 05 (example).
speedtouch-15082001.tar.gz
speedtouch-15082001.tar.bz2
speedtouch-20011007.tar.gz
speedtouch-20011007.tar.bz2
This is the latest version.

Requirements

You should always prefer latest linux kernel, since USB support is getting more & more stable. At present time, this is kernel 2.4.5. All the following options are normally present in pre-compiled kernel. So don't worry with this long list of options.

USB support

Make sure your kernel has been compiled with the following options:

Support for USB (CONFIG_USB) [M] 
  Preliminary USB device filesystem (CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS) [Y] 
  UHCI (Intel PIIX4, VIA, ...) support (CONFIG_USB_UHCI) [M] 
  UHCI Alternate Driver (JE) support (CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT) [M] 
  OHCI (Compaq, iMacs, OPTi, SiS, ALi, ...) support (CONFIG_USB_OHCI) [M]

To check it, mount should give you something similar to:

none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)

Otherwise, just type:

mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb

Next, to check that your modem is "seen" by the system, type the command:

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

This should gives you something similar to:

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=e800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=e400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  4 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=06b9 ProdID=4061 Rev= 0.00
S:  Manufacturer=ALCATEL
S:  Product=Speed Touch USB 
S:  SerialNumber=0090D013AAB8
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbdevfs
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  16 Ivl= 50ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbdevfs
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbdevfs
E:  Ad=06(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=87(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=  0ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 2 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbdevfs
E:  Ad=06(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  32 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  32 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=87(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=  0ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 3 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbdevfs
E:  Ad=06(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  16 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=07(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  16 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=87(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=  0ms
I:  If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=05(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=   8 Ivl=  0ms
E:  Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=   8 Ivl=  0ms

PPP support

Make sure your kernel has been compiled with the following options:

PPP (point-to-point protocol) support (CONFIG_PPP) [M] 
  PPP support for sync tty ports (CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY) [M]

If pppd gives you the following error message:

pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
included in the kernel configuration.  If PPP was included as a
module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'.  If that fails, check t

try modprobe ppp_generic If pppd gives you the following error message:

Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid parameter

try modprobe ppp_synctty. To automatically load the appropriate modules, add those lines to /etc/modules.conf:

alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-14   ppp_synctty

HDLC support
Make sure your kernel has been compiled with the following options:
```
Character devices  --->
[*] Non-standard serial port support 
<M>   HDLC line discipline support
[*] Unix98 PTY support
```
You must load modprobe n_hdlc or add the following line to your /etc/modules.conf:
```
alias tty-ldisc-13 n_hdlc
```
Official Alcatel drivers
You can download whatever version you want (Windows or Linux). Download them at http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/supuser.htm. You need to extract them (running the self-extracting .exe for Windows or tar zxvf for Linux), but DO NOT INSTALL the Alcatel linux drivers!

Copy 'mgmt', 'mgmt.o' or 'alcaudsl.sys' (maybe located under C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS) to a convenient place.

Compilation

This driver is GPL software, so best distributed in source form. That means you have to compile it before using it.

First of all, you should have the source of your running kernel in /usr/src/linux (it may be a symlink to your real kernel sources). In fact, you just need the headers (maybe there is a rpm package on your distribution containing only kernel headers. On a Mandrake 7.2, you need packages kernel-2.2.17-21mdk.i586.rpm & kernel-headers-2.2.17-21mdk.i586.rpm).

Then type:

make

And as root:

make install

Configuration

You need the following information:

your login (in the form fti/xxx@fti for instance)
your password
your vpi.vci couple (example: 0.38 for the UK)
the location of mgmt.o (or equivalent)

To configure pppd, you can create a file /etc/ppp/peers/adsl for instance, with the following content:

debug
kdebug 1
noipdefault
defaultroute
pty "/usr/local/bin/pppoa2 -vpi your_vpi -vci your_vci"
sync
user "your_login"
novjccomp
noaccomp
nopcomp
nomagic
noccp
asyncmap 0
usepeerdns
holdoff 1
persist
maxfail 0

Don't forget to add your login/password in the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.

# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client                server  secret          IP addresses
your_login       *       your_password

To connect, just run the following commands (as root, replacing /path/to/mgmt.o by the real location of your file, which may be mgmt, mgmt.o, alcaudsl.sys or anything containing Alcatel's microcode). Those files are located in the Alcatel's drivers.

/usr/local/bin/modem_run -f /path/to/mgmt.o -m
pppd call adsl

You still need to configure your DNS, usually by making a symlink to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf:

ln -s /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

You should be connected now! If not, read the FAQ!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the mailing list speedtouch@ml.free.fr or myself benoit.papillault@free.fr.

Benoît Papillault