Networking :: USB ADSL modem - how to get working



I want to connect a BT Voyager 210 ADSL modem to my computer via USB.

It says here that it should work with the CDCEther driver.

modprobe CDCEther loads the driver, and lsmod shows that CDCEther is indeed loaded, but netcardconfig says no network cards detected.

Any ideas? Thanks

I think netcardconfig only sees certain network names (ie ethX)

Is it's visible under `ifconfig -a`?

Thanks for the reply.
Here is the output of ifconfig -a:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

No interface there. Not good.

What does dmesg | tail

say after doing

Code Sample
rmmod CDCEther

modprobe CDCEther


dmesg might gives some hint as to the problem, but it looks like the driver is not working with the hardware.

<6>cdrom: open failed.
<6>kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
<6>EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
<6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<6>kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
<6>EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal
<6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
<6>usb.c: deregistering driver CDCEther
<7>CDCEther.c: CDCEther.c: 0.98.6 7 Jan 2002 Brad Hards and another
<6>usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther

I have Debian installed as well and during booting I can see that it recognises the modem and CDCEther flashes by a few times, but I can't get it working with Debian either.

I think I'll probably just get a NIC and use the ethernet connection to the router.

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