Re: Anyone help a newbie?
From: Matthew Shaw (matted_at_[REMOVETHIS)
Date: 01/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:37:33 GMT
I found that I also got faster speeds when I switched from USB to ethernet.
I don't know why the tech who set it up put it on USB in the first place -
you'd think the ISP would want to make their connection as fast as possible
(I'd have done it myself but they don't give you the hardware unless they
come and install it...).
"ERACC" <junkmail@eracc.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.01.30.17.45.12.932646@era4.eracc.UUCP...
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:41:04 +0000, Paul wrote:
>
> [...]
> > Firstly, I have the choice of SuSE 8.1 Professional (7 CDs); Mandrake
9.2 (3
> > CDs); Redhat 9 (3 CDs) - any particularly suited to a newcomer?
>
> Mandrake. My company installs that exclusively for NewBs that get a
> new PC preloaded with Linux. No complaints to date. :-)
>
> > Secondly, when I had a play with SuSE, I got it up and running fine,
apart
> > from not being able to get some hardware working - including my modem,
> > unfortunately... It's the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB for ADSL (yes, the
> > frog/stingray type thing) - I downloaded what claimed to be drivers from
> > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/, but couldn't find anywhere to do
anything
> > with them...
> [...]
>
> First of all USB sucks. :-) I'll recommend switching to an ethernet
> ADSL modem first. Easier to use and much less "flakey".
>
> That said. The Alcatel USB driver is experimental. Says so right
> there on the "Device Driver Support" page. So YMMV from others that
> use it. If you see http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ you
> will notice that it states:
>
> 2003-08-25 Speedtouch in mainline kernel
>
> The just-released 2.4.22 kernel contains the speedtouch kernel
> module. Thanks Marcello!
>
> If you install Mandrake 9.2 your default kernel just happens to be
> kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk which should already have the kernel
> driver module included (according to the information above found on
> the page above). Thus, with MDK 9.2, you should not have to do
> anything other than have the USB <spit> modem plugged in and powered
> up during install. If that does not work then it is a simple matter
> to run 'modprobe <stupidusbcraphere>' as root to get the module
> loaded while the OS is up. Then add a line or two to
> /etc/modules.conf to make sure it loads on every bootup, ta daaa,
> you're done.
>
> If there is more to "it" than that why suffer the headaches? So I
> will end this with ...
>
> Last of all USB sucks. :-) I'll recommend switching to an ethernet
> ADSL modem finally. Easier to use and much less "flakey".
>
> HTH,
> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
> --
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