New iBurst Modem & Linux drivers

[Last-Attacker]

Hello everyone.
I saw that iBurst is now selling new slick black desktop modems instead of the white ones we knew. When did they start selling these kind of modems? Also I read on this site that it has better bandwidth handling capability for the new iBurst infrastructure or something. Recently our old white one bit the dust and yesterday we got a new black one.

The only problem is, does that modem also work with the Linux drivers that is found at sourceforge.net? I have the latest that's found there, 1.3.1, since I last checked. I'll try again later today to see if I can get my iburst to work in Linux with that driver. Also on the packaging of the iburst box it said that it can work with Linux and that we should get the open source drivers online but fails to specify where (I also didn't find anything on their website). So I assume then it is the same driver as with the old white modem at sourceforge, right?

Thanks

 

[ubercal]

I have'nt used the USB drivers yet but it works with Ethernet.You dont need to install any drivers.Just make sure you kernel has PPPOE support.

distro - slackware 11

 

[Last-Attacker]

Well, I took the configuration of the old modem just like that and recompiled and reinstalled it. The modules load but the driver doesn't get created in /proc/drivers/ and when I try to ifup eth1 or dsl0, then it keeps on telling me that those interfaces doesn't exist.

I am using SuSE 10.0 at the moment, since it uses SuSE-Meta-PPPoE.

The modem does get picked up when I do an 'lsusb' and it does work since I am posting now from it right now from Windows.

I will wipe the whole iburst installation and try again from scratch. I don't know if SuSE 10.0 has any iburst drivers in it's driver-base.

 

[ubercal]

I got the iburst installed fine using the drivers from sourceforge

Steps that i did

1) Downloaded the 2.6.16.16 kernel
2) Recompile kernel with PPP + PPPOE + itables built into kernel
3) Downloaded the "ibdriver-1.3.1-linux-2.6.tar.gz" driver.Note the following
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"The ibdriver code has reached version 1.3 with the release of version 1.3.1.

Two files are in the release:
ibdriver-1.3.1-linux-2.6.tar.gz which is compatible with all linux kernels up to and including 2.6.16.

ibdriver-1.3.1-linux-2.6.17.tar.gz which is compatible with linux kernel 2.6.17 *only* "
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I think the problem might be use using the wrong driver with your kernel version

4) ran the pppoe client
pppoe-setup

NOTE - When u going thru the wizard it will ask u which interface iburst uses.Dont use eth0 or eth1 , but use ib0

5) ran the following commadn to start connection
pppoe-start

6) finished

 

[GreatBigMouth]

When did they start selling these kind of modems?

Well, for quite some time now. I ordered my modem in August 2006, and I received an orange one, which was a limited edition. If I remember correctly, the black ones came out just after that.

 

[Last-Attacker]

Thanks ubercal.
I decided to add an other network card in my linux router and connect iburst through that instead of the usb connection (seems to have a problem with that) and now I am sending a post to you from my linux router with iBurst.

Man! With this setting (Network cable instead of USB and with the new iBurst modem) on my Linux gateway, the internet is so much faster than when I had to run it through Windows' ICS with the new modem.