openSUSE 10.3 and AVM Fritzcard DSL

A friend asked my to set up a Linux server with an AVM Fritz
PCI DSL/ISDN card. The card is listed by lspci as "Multimedia
controller TriMedia TM-1300" but openSUSE 10.3 does not detect
it.

The AVM homepage lists only a SUSE 9.3 driver and supplementary
information for non-SUSE distributions, which seems to imply that
nothing is needed for later SUSE releases.

OTOH, in the openSUSE hardware compatibility list I can't even
find an appropriate category for that card, let alone an entry
for the card itself.

Should this work out of the box? If not, what's missing?

Thanks for any hints,
Tilman

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Tilman,

what's the exact model name? I can find a FRITZ!Card DSL USB on the avm site.

Uwe

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Am 02.11.2007 21:01 schrieb Uwe Buckesfeld:
> what's the exact model name? I can find a FRITZ!Card DSL USB on the avm site.

It's called just "FRITZ!Card DSL" without any addition, and it's
a PCI card with two RJ-45 connectors, one for DSL and one for ISDN.
A newer version, "FRITZ!Card DSL v2.0", puts both interfaces on a
single RJ-45 connector which you have then to split up again with a
proprietary Y-cable. I guess that's called progress.
Both are no longer produced which may be the reason you couldn't find
it, but AVM still has a support page for them at
http://www.avm.de/de/Service/Service...estartenneu=ok
That's where I found the SuSE 9.3 driver (link "FRITZ!Card DSL CAPI
Driver Version 03.11.07 vom 7.7.2005 (Linux)") and the instructions
for non-SuSE Linuces.

The "FRITZ!Card DSL USB" is something completely different (no Python
pun intended). It's not a card at all, but an external box. I never
understood why they named it so confusingly.

Thanks,
Tilman

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Tilman,

personally I think DSL hardware problems can be easily avoided by buying a cheap DSL router...

Is this any help?
http://opensuse.foehr-it.de/

Uwe

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Am 07.11.2007 13:23 schrieb Uwe Buckesfeld:
> personally I think DSL hardware problems can be easily avoided by buying a cheap DSL router...

Well, the SuSE box in question is supposed to *be* the DSL router when it's done ...

> Is this any help?
> http://opensuse.foehr-it.de/

That certainly looks promising. I'll try that (not today, I'm too
tired now) and report back.

Thanks,
Tilman

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* Tilman Schmidt wrote, On 11/07/2007 11:41 PM:

> Well, the SuSE box in question is supposed to *be* the DSL router when it's done ...

You couls still use it as the router using an external DSL modem.

> That certainly looks promising. I'll try that (not today, I'm too
> tired now) and report back.

Please do. Good luck!

Uwe

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Am 08.11.2007 06:22 schrieb Uwe Buckesfeld:
> * Tilman Schmidt wrote, On 11/07/2007 11:41 PM:
>
>> Well, the SuSE box in question is supposed to *be* the DSL router when it's done ...
>
> You couls still use it as the router using an external DSL modem.
>
>> That certainly looks promising. I'll try that (not today, I'm too
>> tired now) and report back.
>
> Please do. Good luck!

Ok, first round failed - I had done a 64 bit install (should have
known better) and the (closed source) AVM drivers are 32 bit only.
Reinstalling 32 bit now, be back.

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