Hi
I have a Nokia Ni200 internal adsl modem which works via pppoa and not pppoe. The chipset used by this modem is made itex who have just brought out a driver for it. After following their instructions (compiling kernel, patching etc etc) they said that if i start the driver and then pppd i should see in the /var/log/messages some blurb ending with

..You can check your /var/log/messages to see if everything went ok.
For PPPoA this should be something like this:
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 0.100
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

from this I assume I am connected and online but what do i do now?

I tried opening netscape, konqueror etc but nothing happens. All i get is the "cant find...." like you would if you werent online at all.

Any ideas of what to do next??
Any help would be most appreciated

thanks
gandalf

good luck guy

check your DNS settings.
good luck :o)

It might be worth checking the your ppp interface has initialised, using:

ifconfig -a

You should see an entry for ppp0 and it's status should be "UP".

If this is so then try using:

netstat -rn

to see what ip routes that exist, you can configure routes using the "route" command. Routing can be a nightmare to the uninitiated but there is plenty of documentation around to help.

Hi,

Have a look at my webpage on getting PPPoA to
work;

http://www.ahs-png.org/lintech/linux_hints_tips/ADSL/index.html

I think what you need to do is add the usepeerdns
option and then act on the returned info (down
around step 8)

add nopcomp at your /etc/ppp/options
file.....it's really work...bye

Is their an entry in your routing?

The default gateway should point to the ADSL interface (ppp0)

if this isn't so, add the route yourself.

(route add default gw gatewayipofyourprovider)
You can find this ip from: ifconfig
the PPP0 settings (P-t-P: 232...)