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Hi

First sorry for this but its a bit lengthy as I want to give as much info as poss,but please bear with me.

I have a Nokia Ni200 internal adsl modem and am trying to get things up and running under linux.
The chipset used by this card is made by itex who have recently brought out a driver for their chipsets to work with linux. It involves recompiling the kernel with a patch here and there. Along with the files they supplied a document explaining what to do and how to check that if everything was running ok ie look in the /var/log/messages.

The document says load the driver by doing this

insmod -f itex1577.o

and then check the log and you should see this

itexadsl: version = 2.25, built date = Fri, Sept. 15 14:20:18 PST 2001
itexadsl: card #0, ix=0x0, bus = 0x0, fn = 0x28, ven = 0x1471, dev = 0x188
itexadsl: total 1 card(s) found
itexadsl: irq = 0x3, ioaddr = 0x2000, membase = 0x41100000 itexadsl: card #0 ? MAC: 00:90:96:06:21:d9 from eeprom itexadsl: ITeX i90388 chip init_module: cardcnt = 1
itexadsl: modem line disconnected. card #0 ?
current modem state: ACTIVATING card #0 ?
current modem state: INITIALIZING
itexadsl: modem line connected. (card_no: 0)
itexadsl: upstream latency ? fast itexadsl: downstream latency ? fast
itexadsl: card #0 ? data rate: 864/8128 (line rate: 960/8612) kbps connect_bh: tx cell per msec 3 connect_bh: upstream rate 864 card #0 ? current modem state: SHOWTIME_LO.

"Once you see the modem enters showtime, you can safely dial into your ISP server."

which is more or less what I get is this
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel:itexadsl: version= 2.2.7.ITEXPC86.0001 , built date= Wed Nov 21 13:13:09 PST 2001
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel:itexadsl: card# 0, ix=0x0, bus=0x0, fn=0x58, ven=0x1471, dev=0x188
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel: itexadsl: total 1 card(s) found.
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel: itexadsl: irq=0xa, ioaddr=0x9800, membase=0xe5800000
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel:itexadsl: card #0 - MAC: 00:01:a0:04:06:1f from eeprom.
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel: itexadsl: ITeX i90188 chip.
Dec 25 18:54:52 localhost kernel: init_module: cardcnt = 1
Dec 25 18:54:54 localhost kernel: itexadsl: modem line disconnected.
Dec 25 18:54:58 localhost kernel: card #0 - current modem state : ACTIVATING.
Dec 25 18:55:32 localhost kernel: card #0 - current modem state : INITIALIZING.
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: itexadsl: modem line connected. (card_no: 0)
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: itexadsl: upstream latency - interleaved
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: itexadsl: downstream latency - interleaved
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: itexadsl: card #0 - data rate: 800 / 7168 (line rate: 960 / 8164) kbps
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: connect_bh:tx cell per msec 2
Dec 25 18:55:39 localhost kernel: connect_bh: upstream rate 800
Dec 25 18:55:40 localhost kernel: card #0 - current modem state : SHOWTIME_L0.

which as far as this newbie is concerned looks ok.

Next it says start the ppp daemon

/usr/bin/pppd

and then you should see this in the log

PPPD[1234]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so loaded.
PPPD[1234]: PPPoATM plugin_init
PPPD[1324]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm
PPPD[1324]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS
PPPD[1235]: PPPD 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
PPPD[1235]: Using interface ppp0
PPPD[1235]: Connect: ppp0 <-- 0.38
PPPD[1235]: local IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
PPPD[1235]: remote IP address yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
Congratulations! You are online!

what i actually get is this

Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1029]: Plugin /usr/src/linux/ppp-2.4.0b2/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so loaded.
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1029]: PPPoATM plugin_init
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1029]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1029]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1030]: pppd 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost kernel: itex_open: opening vpi.vci 0.100 on 0 NIC card
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost kernel: itex_open: target cell rate (UBR) = 0 0 0 on 0 NIC card.
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1030]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 25 18:56:12 localhost pppd[1030]: Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.100
Dec 25 18:56:13 localhost kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Dec 25 18:56:13 localhost pppd[1030]: local IP address 210.86.51.76
Dec 25 18:56:13 localhost pppd[1030]: remote IP address 210.86.51.254

Again as far as I can tell this looks ok and I am in fact online. If I
try pinging the remote address I get a response. If I try to ping my ISP I get a message saying "

[root@localhost /root]# cd /usr/src/linux/ppp-2.4.0b2
[root@localhost ppp-2.4.0b2]# insmod -f itex1577-2.4.2.o
[root@localhost ppp-2.4.0b2]# /usr/sbin/pppd
[root@localhost ppp-2.4.0b2]# ping 202.27.184.3
Connect: Network is unreachable
[root@localhost ppp-2.4.0b2]#

Also when i open netscape,konqueror etc they act as though they are not connected.
With netscape i type in an url and i get an error box saying "no server specified"

My ISP is www.xtra.co.nz
the DNS IP addresses are
202.27.184.3
202.27.184.5
I do not have a permanant IP address

I've already changed the /etc/ppp/options, /etc/ppp/chap and /etc/ppp/pap to what the document told me to. But here they are

/etc/ppp/options
*************
lock
noauth
asyncmap 0
name myname.xadsl@xtra.co.nz
user myname.xadsl@xtra.co.nz
plugin /usr/src/linux/ppp-2.4.0b2/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so
0.100

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets
****************
# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client server secret IP addresses
myname.xadsl@xtra.co.nz * mypassword

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
*****************
# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client server secret IP addresses
myname@xtra.co.nz * mypassword

/etc/resolv.conf
************
domain xtra.co.nz
nameserver 202.27.184.3
nameserver 202.27.184.5

/etc/hosts
********
27.0.0.1 localhost.domain localhost
202.27.184.3
202.27.184.5

/etc/host.conf
************
order hosts,bind
multi on

I dont have any ethernet cards or other any thing else connected to my pc. All I want todo is to connect to the internet.

Any help would be most appreciated. Again sorry for the lengthy post.

Steve