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Morning all you lovely people... I'm involved with a charitable organisation that is organising a series of conferences next month, part of the organisation of which involves relocating their offices to the place the conferences take place. There will be ISDN lines there, and as their resident Free Software Hero, they've asked me to build a Linux box to act as a router for them so they can access the internet while the conferences are going on. I'll be using SuSE 8.2 (of course), and just wondered whether anyone had any recommendations of cards that they've found work particularly well, that are currently available for purchase in the UK. I'll be doing the usual compatibility research one does when looking at buying hardware, but personal experience is always (IMHO) more useful than an official "yes, it works". Cost is something of an issue, I don't know a definite budget, but being a charity, they only have finite resources. Thanks to anyone who can help James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:58:25AM +0100, james@usr-local-bin.org wrote:
Morning all you lovely people...
I'm involved with a charitable organisation that is organising a series of conferences next month, part of the organisation of which involves relocating their offices to the place the conferences take place.
There will be ISDN lines there, and as their resident Free Software Hero, they've asked me to build a Linux box to act as a router for them so they can access the internet while the conferences are going on.
I'll be using SuSE 8.2 (of course), and just wondered whether anyone had any recommendations of cards that they've found work particularly well, that are currently available for purchase in the UK.
I'll be doing the usual compatibility research one does when looking at buying hardware, but personal experience is always (IMHO) more useful than an official "yes, it works".
Cost is something of an issue, I don't know a definite budget, but being a charity, they only have finite resources.
I have an ASUSLink card which definitely worked with SuSE (8.0 I think). Since I no longer have an ISDN line (now on ADSL - woohoo!), you can loan/have it for free if you like. It's an internal PCI card. However, for ease of use and setup, I'd probably recommend using something like IPCop rather than SuSE, since it'll save you some hassle. Give me a shout if you're interested. HTH... -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
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James
There will be ISDN lines there, and as their resident Free Software Hero, they've asked me to build a Linux box to act as a router for them so they can access the internet while the conferences are going on.
I'll be using SuSE 8.2 (of course), and just wondered whether anyone had any recommendations of cards that they've found work particularly well, that are currently available for purchase in the UK.
The BT Speedway just dropped into my SuSE firewall box as did the Elsa 1000pro PCI. YaST2 did it for me. Think the BT card is a re-badged Fritz card ? Thanks Richard
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:31:27PM +0100, richard@sheflug.co.uk wrote:
The BT Speedway just dropped into my SuSE firewall box as did the Elsa 1000pro PCI. YaST2 did it for me. Think the BT card is a re-badged Fritz card ?
Beware that there are at least two versions of the BT Speedway card; the Fritz!PCI v1.0, which definitely works using standard kernel drivers, and the Fritz!PCI v2.0, which requires either the new, "experimental" open-source drivers, or the binary-only CAPI2.0 driver supplied by the manufacturer (AVM). I think that the v2.0 card works under SuSE 8.2, but I've not tried it. I've heard rumours of a v2.1 card as well, but I've never seen one. HTH... -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
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Dave Smith
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James Ogley
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Richard Ibbotson