USB DSL call for testing (Re: USB ADSL Modem support, status of development?)

Fri Oct 1 09:30:54 UTC 2004

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:30:32 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:16 +0530, Srikanth Nori wrote:
> > Most posts were about the Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem, but my
> > interest lies elsewhere (Aztech 500U)
> 
> That may in fact be a rebadged version of the Speedtouch -- it looks
> like it's actually made by Alcatel. Can you show the contents of
> /proc/bus/usb/devices when it's connected?

The contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices follow:
T:  Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6
B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.04
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ehci_hcd
S:  Product=Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2
S:  SerialNumber=00:1d.7
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=   2 Ivl=256ms
T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc= 93/900 us (10%), #Int=  1, #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=ec00
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=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=046d ProdID=c00e Rev=11.00
S:  Manufacturer=Logitech
S:  Product=USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 98mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   4 Ivl=10ms
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=e880
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=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=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0509 ProdID=0803 Rev= 0.00
S:  Manufacturer=AME
S:  Product=    ADSL USB Modem
S:  SerialNumber=00300A000000
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
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=(none)
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
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=(none)
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=(none)
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

> > Anyway, I was wondering what is the status of development? Is still it being
> > actively pursued?
> 
> Well I was highly offended by how complicated it was to get it working
> so yes, it's actively being pursued...
> 
> At ftp://pentafluge.infradead.org/pub/dsl/ there is most of what you
> should need to get the Speedtouch working sanely under rawhide.
> 
> There's a new kernel driver which obsoletes the old 'modem_run' tool.
> The driver is now capable of loading the firmware and initialising the
> modem for itself. You do still need to download the firmware and use the
> extraction tool which is part of the userspace 'speedtouch' package,
> then put the resulting boot block and main firmware images into
> /lib/firmware so that request_firmware can find them. The boot block
> should be called 'speedtch_fw1', and the main image should be either
> 'speedtch_fw2_rev123' or 'speedtch_fw2_rev4' depending on the revision
> of your modem.
> 
> To build the kernel driver, untar it, change into its directory and type
> 'make', or 'make nodebug'. Please let me know whether it works for you
> or not.

After much wrestling, make-ing and ./configuring, I failed to get any
sensible work done, and still have no DSL :( . I'll look up the
website makers of the original driver and see if I can get it working.
But can someone please confirm whether, or not, this modem has an
Alcatel Speedtouch chipset?