The manufacturer of that card should provide the source driver.

I guess that the problem you are having comes from the possible
incompatibility 
between the driver and the kernel.

I haven't checked if you really need to load all those 'ppp related'
modules.

Maybe that PCI card does not require some...

It is pppoe.so (the pppd plugin) module that is panicing the kernel...

Hum, this requires additional investigation

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Braund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 7:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [leaf-user] Dynalink PCI ADSL modem ALH110 - kernel panic in
interrupt handler - not syncing


Bering v1.0-stable
AMD 586 24M ram 200M HDD

Dynalink PCI ADSL modem ALH110
The main chip on the Board is
Itex i903888EB
CSSDCS04U
ICNT230213
C 2002 ITEX

The DSL HOWTO

http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/adsl/overview.html
"IteX PCI ADSL modems, based on the Apollo chipset,
have Linux drivers. (Modems using this chipset are sold
under a number of various brand names.)"

and

http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/adsl/appendix.html#MODEMS
"IteX PCI ADSL modem based on the Apollo chipset, also sold under various
other brand names such as Dlink and ALH110. http://www.itexinc.com/.

makes me think that this PCI card should be OK.

The install instructions that came with the card basically say to install
the modem driver then connect via PPPoE. Reading the Bearing docs makes me
think that PCI modems need to be installed as PPPoA but the DSL howto makes
me think PPPoE should be fine. mmmm I'm confused!...

The driver that came on the CD with the card was for Kernel 2.4.2
itex1483-2.4.2-2.o and when I tried to load it;

# insmod itex1483-2.4.2-2.o vpi=8 vci=35 framing=1
Using itex1483-2.4.2-2.o
insmod: unresolved symbol tvec_bases

I have found a driver from
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/latest/drivers/speedtouch-pci
/1483
/itex1483-2.4.16.o
which seems to load OK, the modem lights react correctly,
I get Sync.

but on reboot with the driver in /lib/modules and
called in /etc/modules by;
itex1483-2.4.2-2 vpi=8 vci=35 framing=1

I get a kernel panic.
Full dump from my serial console at; http://63.111.28.72/panic.txt


I have looked high and low for a more appropriate driver,
any clues would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Andrew Braund

PS I have been able to get ADSL working fine on this Bearing firewall using
an Alcatel Speedtouch Ethernet modem following the PPPoE instructions in the
Bearing user guide; http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bupppoe.html



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