Mark Wagnon wrote:
A cable modem would be choice! I've put off getting one because I haven't had the time to read up on how to get it going.
I got a DEC 21041 based card, because from the brief amount of research I did it seemed the DEC tulip driver was a good choice for linux. I just compiled a fresh kernel with ethernet and DEC tulip support compiled in, and IP accounting so I could run a network monitor in place of the modem lights I was used to. Then I set up my networking device in YaST, and bam, I was online. It was real easy.
I'd like to get a cable modem and network my two computers, one running linux, the other running windows, so that I can have the cable modem installed on my linux machine and still be able to access the internet on the windows machine. Is this possible (BTW, I'm not very network savvy)?
My ethernet card accepts both 10baseT and 10Base2. I was wondering whether or not I could run 2 boxes off the same cable modem with the cable modem connected to box A via 10baseT and box A connected to box B via 10base2. I suppose when I finally have enough spare parts to throw another box together I'll be more serious about finding out.
I subscribe to my local LUG's mail list and a lot of these guys have cable modems. They're always posting about security issues and such. You might want to check the site out (<A HREF="http://www.kernel-panic.com"><A HREF="http://www.kernel-panic.com</A">http://www.kernel-panic.com</A</A>>). I believe they just added an archives section of the list.
Thanks Mark, I'll go look. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e