Adam:
The best I have got is 50% reply to pings from the ppp partner now, but no outside connectivity. What I may need is different firmware though, there appears to be at least 6 versions of which i have 2.
That's very similar to the wrong HCI drivers problem I had on the other machine here.
AFAICS the ohci drivers should not work but i may give it a go in a while, just we need the line up by this evening... so I may have to resort to windows and proxy...
There are two UHCI driver modules in the main kernel.