On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:49:51AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
We're building a system which serves, amongst other things, as an ADSL router.
For cost and simplicity reasons, we want to use an internal ADSL modem; both the
internal ADSL
modems available to us (Dynalink and D-Link) use, as far as we can tell, a Rockwell
chipset. The
only drivers available for it are for RedHat 6.2 (or the 2.2 kernel, if I have it
right); however,
Good Luck :) Both these cards use the Itex 1483(1384) Chipset. There are
2.2 and 2.4 drivers available. Just mail itex and they'll send them to
you. Unfortunatelt they are compiled against old kernels. We've tried to
get source it's impossible. (Random oh we signed an NDA with someone else stuff).
That isn't going to be your problem however. In windows these card work
great. The do pppoe and pppoa and work just about everywhere.
Linux is another matter. In linux they only do pppoe which means you
can't use them with say RequestDSL based providers who only support
PPPoA.
You used to be able to use them with all the Telstra ADSL based
providers eg PI, Telstra BigPond Home/Direct.
But some time in the last 6 months Telstra has changed something on the
ADSL network which means these cards no longer work. All the
installation we have that already have these cards are still working but
the new ones don't.
NB the above only applies to PPPoE connection. If you use someone like
PI who will allow you to get bridged ethernet connections then the cards
work fine.
Its a real shame since it was nice to be able to not have to ship an
external modem. If there's anyone from Telstra ADSL here that thinks thy
know someone that could help with this problem tat would be wonderful.
We've tried chasing it with Telstra ourselves but haven't really gotten
anywhere.
The real sticking point is that it looks like one of those things that
could easily solved if you had the source code since its obviously not a
hardware thing since windows works fine.
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John
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