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On Mon, 3 May 2010 16:29:19 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 May 2010, osp at aloha.com wrote:
> 
> >> Hi, I am having problems connecting to my ISP. I am running a
> >> freebsd 7.2 box using a thompson speedtouch usb modem to connect
> >> to an adsl telephone line. However when I try to make a PPP
> >> connection using pppoa the driver says it cannot find the modem.
> >> The dmesg from the kernel says the modem is 'cdce0' and 'usb0 is
> >> on uhub0'. But 'cdce0' is not in /dev and when I try to ./MAKEDEV
> >> cdce0 I get command not found. Can anyone help me?

> > If your "thompson speedtouch usb modem" is in fact an ADSL modem
> > then the USB end out to present as a network interface. Again, ppp
> > would not be used.
> 
> PPPoE, though...  The device to use would be ue0.  Tested with an old 
> Ambit cable modem here; it's detected as cdce0 and the ue0 device is 
> automatically created.

It's actually going to be PPPoA, with the speedtouch driver in
net/pppoa. I presume the error occurs when the "firmware" upload
program tries to find the modem. By the look of it, it has to find
it for itself, so it's not simply a matter of using the right device
name.