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Posted: June 14 2007,18:39 QUOTE
I checked Ubuntu again and lsmod shows usbnet and cdc_ether running.

According to the link in my first post (again) it says that my modem (a BT Voyager 210) uses a network adapter interface made by Askey. On Askey's website it doesn't say anything about Linux, but according to that link I just posted, my modem should work with CDCEther.

What I don't understand is that DSL sees the modem, knows it's a USB ADSL modem, knows to run CDCEther, but still doesn't work...
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Posted: June 15 2007,08:28 QUOTE
I would guess that the version of Ubuntu you tried is running a 2.6.x kernel - is that correct? If so, you could always try DSL-N rc4 to see if that changes anything.

Does DSL load usbnet (or its 2.4.x equivalent) as well as CDCEther?
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Posted: June 15 2007,12:16 QUOTE
Okay, I got DSL-N running, and I'm typing this message from it (hehe)! At first it didn't even load CDCEther, so I wasn't very happy. I tried modprobe CDCEther, but it said Module CDCEther not found. Then I tried modprobe cdc_ether, but same thing. So then I tried modprobe usbnet, and it loaded that one. I tried netcardconfig, and then to my cries of happiness it asked 'DHCP Broadcast?', I chose 'Yes' and the internet is now working :) :) :)
DSL-N is pretty slow on my computer (slower than Win XP), so I'm not going to give-up on DSL... I can't remember whether I tried modprobe usbnet on DSL. If that doesn't work then I suppose I could put my efforts into trying to get DSL-N to run faster (toram, etc.)

Thanks for your help, and to everyone who contributed to DSL and DSL-N :)
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Posted: June 15 2007,14:41 QUOTE
Hmmm, unfortunately I think I'll have to give-up on DSL until I get a NIC so I can connect my modem to the computer by ethernet. I tried modprobe usbnet in DSL, but I still couldn't get the internet working. Unfortunately I am also a few kilobytes short of being able to run DSL-N toram, and it is horribly slow running it off the HD, so it's back to WinXP then for a while.
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