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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:22:10PM +0100, Sadie Brinham wrote:
I understand it is a nightmare finding Linux modem drivers.
When I came to Wellington I had to say goodbye to my cable modem and embrace ADSL. I joined plusnet, on a friend's recommendation, and they provided the connection and a Binatone ADSL 500 USB modem. The Binatone website says that a Linux driver is included on the CD. It didn't work for me and after tweaking it a bit I asked the plusnet forum and learned that this driver worked for Red Hat 7 and has not worked since, and moreover that this fact is well-known in the plusnet community (but not in the setup guides). The plusnet guru advised me to forget about USB modems altogether and go for ethernet. So I bought a D-Link ethernet modem (it has a firewall and does NAT so it's a router really). This sort of thing is bound to put people off. I was using Windows at that time of course, to make any progress at all, with the intention of moving to the Linux partition as soon as I could. I wondered about asking plusnet to make the position clear in the beginner's guides -- for Linux get a NIC and ethernet modem, which costs a little bit more but works -- and that would avoid annoying people like me who feel they were conned but the best solution is to have drivers for USB modems.
Shall I go and download a job lot of the most common modem drivers?(Burn onto discs for the meet?)
Sounds good. Tony Sumner -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.