Linux and ADSL

Hello,

I've just had broadband fitted an BT have supplied me with a Westell 36R305
usb adsl modem. I can use the modem fine on a WinME pc but I'm having
trouble getting my RH8.0 pc to recognise the modem. When I plug it is the
system detects the device but I think I'm missing a driver for it.

Can anyone help with where I might get a driver for this modem?

Thanks

Glenn

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:41:37 +0100, "Glenn Robinson"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've just had broadband fitted an BT have supplied me with a Westell 36R305
>usb adsl modem. I can use the modem fine on a WinME pc but I'm having
>trouble getting my RH8.0 pc to recognise the modem. When I plug it is the
>system detects the device but I think I'm missing a driver for it.
>
>Can anyone help with where I might get a driver for this modem?
That's strange, because Suse 8.1 on my second HD recognised my
Speedtouch 510 router and installed completely and utterly painlessly.
No drivers needed or asked for. Different system, but isn't Suse RH
originated?

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Peter James
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Peter James wrote:

> >I've just had broadband fitted an BT have supplied me with a Westell 36R305
> >usb adsl modem. I can use the modem fine on a WinME pc but I'm having
> >trouble getting my RH8.0 pc to recognise the modem. When I plug it is the
> >system detects the device but I think I'm missing a driver for it.
> >
> >Can anyone help with where I might get a driver for this modem?

> That's strange, because Suse 8.1 on my second HD recognised my
> Speedtouch 510 router and installed completely and utterly painlessly.
> No drivers needed or asked for. Different system, but isn't Suse RH
> originated?

The Speedtouch 510 is not a Westell 36R305 is it?

I suspect that the Westell 36R305 device is not supported.

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"Peter James" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I've just had broadband fitted an BT have supplied me with a Westell
36R305
> >usb adsl modem. I can use the modem fine on a WinME pc but I'm having
> >trouble getting my RH8.0 pc to recognise the modem. When I plug it is the
> >system detects the device but I think I'm missing a driver for it.
> >
> >Can anyone help with where I might get a driver for this modem?
> That's strange, because Suse 8.1 on my second HD recognised my
> Speedtouch 510 router and installed completely and utterly painlessly.
> No drivers needed or asked for. Different system, but isn't Suse RH
> originated?

The 510 is an ethernet router not a USB one - and therefore does not need
specialised drivers.

The USB modem with the best Linux support is the Alcatel Speedtouch/330.

Just done a quick google and if you can't find Linux drivers for the Westell
36R305 now, I'm sure you will soon as it appears Smoothwall now supports
it..

Regards
Sunil

"Glenn Robinson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Westell 36R305

Hi,
according to
http://www.infotech.tu-chemnitz.de/c..._2_id2_57.html,
no linux support is available. Your best bet with linux is to buy a router,
network card and cables. You will save yourself a lot of hassle and also
gain support for multiple PC's in the process.

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"Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bkcpbo$97e8$(E-Mail Removed)...
>

> The 510 is an ethernet router not a USB one - and therefore does not need
> specialised drivers.
>
> The USB modem with the best Linux support is the Alcatel Speedtouch/330.
>
> Just done a quick google and if you can't find Linux drivers for the
Westell
> 36R305 now, I'm sure you will soon as it appears Smoothwall now supports
> it..
>
> Regards
> Sunil
>

It may be worth checking out
http://http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en
This driver works for the Westell/Fujistu FDX310, if the 36R305 is based on
the same chipset, Globespan, then it may work. Its certainly worth
trying.

Andrew

Martin Cooper <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> "Glenn Robinson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Westell 36R305
>
> Hi,
> according to
> http://www.infotech.tu-chemnitz.de/c..._2_id2_57.html,
> no linux support is available. Your best bet with linux is to buy a router,
> network card and cables. You will save yourself a lot of hassle and also
> gain support for multiple PC's in the process.

What I'd really quite like is for some of the linux-based routers
(Linksys WRT54G as an example, for some hackery look at
http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g) to come with full source,
rather than the partial source they do.

Being able to run some stuff on the router, even if it's only got a couple
of free meg of flash and 6 of RAM would be really handy.

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:00:13 +0100, Andrew wrote:

>
> "Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bkcpbo$97e8$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>
>> The 510 is an ethernet router not a USB one - and therefore does not need
>> specialised drivers.
>>
>> The USB modem with the best Linux support is the Alcatel Speedtouch/330.
>>
>> Just done a quick google and if you can't find Linux drivers for the
> Westell
>> 36R305 now, I'm sure you will soon as it appears Smoothwall now supports
>> it..
>>
>> Regards
>> Sunil
>>
>
> It may be worth checking out
> http://http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en
> This driver works for the Westell/Fujistu FDX310, if the 36R305 is based on
> the same chipset, Globespan, then it may work. Its certainly worth
> trying.
>
> Andrew
i use the eci drivers on my fujitsu fdx310 which so i am told is basicly
the westell modem just rebadged and the drivers work very welll now.