Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

[mikie]

2007/7/9, Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > One more thing - when the modem finally runs in isochronous mode, yet
> > I cannot get high transfer rates. I can't get nothing more than
> > 3Mbits/s. When I used kernel 2.4 with bulk mode I had only 2.5 Mbit/s.
> > So there is a little progress, but still not too much. Is it possible
> > that weak and old hardware (Celeron 633 on a VIA chipset motherboard)
> > is causing this ?
>
> Is it actually running in isochronous mode?  (It prints some messages
> about this).  You may need new firmware (I've attached some recent
> firmware that was made available by Thomson UK without any licence
> conditions).

Unfortunatelly this firmware does not work with my modem. I get this
thing in the debug log:
Jul 10 09:26:27 srv kernel: speedtch 1-2:1.0: speedtch_upload_firmware entered
Jul 10 09:26:27 srv kernel: speedtch 1-2:1.0:
speedtch_upload_firmware: BLOCK1 uploaded (935 bytes)
Jul 10 09:26:29 srv kernel: usb 1-2: speedtch timed out on ep5in len=0/512

And it hangs at this point for a couple of minutes, so I have to
manually remove the speedtch module. As far as I can see my modem is
revision 2.00 (kernel searches for firmware speedtch-1.bin.2.00).

I also tried a couple of other firmwares available on the net, and
also the one from Windows XP install (which works and achieves speeds
of up to 720kbyte/sec downlink). Some of the firmwares did not work
either, and some worked the same way - it means not more than 3mbit/s
(around 400kbyte/s) could be achieved.

--
Regards,
MK
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