On Tuesday 23 July 2002 22:06, donald stidwell wrote:

Basically, forget it. Until recently, I used a Direcway satellite setup and there is absolutely no way to use those modems with Linux. There are several threads on this issue in the DSL Reports satellite forum (just go to www.dslreports.com, select forums, then Satellite and do a search on Linux).

I took a look at this. Not much hope eh? Sigh. I wish people would not be so hung up on one OS. I asked the guys who set this up what they do when they run up against a customer that doesn't use Windows... as in a Mac, or Linux etc. They looked at me like I had two heads. You mean there is anything but Windows. Sadly this satellite thing is the ONLY option where my brother is living/working. The next best is a noisy telephone line that sometimes connects as fast as 33.6k. Ooooh ahhhh.

There is a company that sells a system for Linux use but it is based on kernel 2.2 (RedHat 6.2 based I believe). You'll find information about them in the satellite forum as well.

One of the replies was about this.. the Helius router is probably the one you were thinking of. From what I read it seems to do the job. Now... is it cost effective? Something my brother will have to decide.

When I was using DPC, I set up a minimal Win2K box to use ICS with. ICS works okay with Linux but the pain of course is having to setup a Windows box to use it.

This is how they have it working right now. They want to avoid Windows if at all possible though. The cost of a Windows2000 Server is too high, and the maintenance is much more than they want to deal with either. In other words, they are trying to avoid Windows servers at all costs, but still have broadband access to the web. Thanks to all the suggestions and info. Gave us something to work with. C.

Product plugs are OK ;-) as long as they work. Actually, I had already discovered the Helius website and told/asked my brother to get in contact with the company for pricing and availability. Thanks for the direction to the product. C. On Tuesday 23 July 2002 23:42, Seth R Payne wrote:

*WARNING....there is a product plug below....*

Actually, the company I work for, Helius develops and sells a Linux based router for this exact purpose of working with the Hughes system. It would do what you are looking for:

http://www.helius.com/products/hsrdpc.html

-----Original Message----- From: Clayton Cornell [mailto:c.cornell@chello.nl] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:06 PM To: suse-linux-e Subject: [SLE] Satellite modems and Linux

Has anyone had any success getting Linux to control/route a satellite modem?

I am trying to help my brother setup a small business network using SuSE8. They have a Hughes Network Systems Directway DW4000 satellite broadband internet connection (ouch, that is mouthfull). The send/receive modems connect into the PC via a "convenient" USB cable instead of your bog standard RJ45 network cable. The software and support that comes with the system is Microsoft only.

http://www.hns.com/default.asp?CurrentPath=products/direcway_terminals/dw30 0 0-4000/dw3000-4000.htm

The idea is to have a pared down Linux system to provide routing/masquerading and firewalling for the business network. (I have done this with a standard cable modem, and it worked quite nicely) The problem is that we have yet to get the USB satellite modem device to work with Linux. The device itself works, and if we connect a wonderously expensive Win2000 server and the driver sw for the modems it all works nicely, sans proper firewall security. Thing is, they don't want the expense and problems of a Win2k server... they want a Linux system. ;-)

I have done a fair bit of Google-ing and not come up with a lot... Anyone have any ideas, web site suggestions, or experience with these USB satellite modems from Hughes?

C.