On Thursday 13 March 2003 07:38, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Yes... ethernet is no problem. I think my concerns are with the USB component... my brother tried and failed to get SuSE working with a Hughes Satellite modem that uses USB as it's interface. I was/am wondering if this SMC modem is the same... the saving grace being that it has an RJ45 intereface.
C.
Clayton, Ethernet (RJ45) is solid stable, and fast. USB in Linux is still in it's infancy. I watch a few USB-Linux lists; there is lots of bleeding edge experimention. I have a SMC Baracade Broadband router/firewall that is just perfect; I can just plug in the rj45 cable from a PC with a NIC and Presto! that PC is surfing. I can connect a switch/hub to one port and add an arbitrary number of PCs. The SMC is controlled/administrated via a web page it serves to it's ports; any PC connected (and user with the password) can interact with it. It automagically issues dynamically assigned IP addrs via DHCP. All in All a no brainer.
PeterB
Thanks Peter... that's good to know... now the challenge is wading through the Dutch website for the ADSL ISP and contacting the company.... I really need to work on improving my Dutch ;-P C.