personally i prefer using ethernet devices, i'd have used an adsl router because basically 2 lines and it's up! usb in linux is tricky (and under documented i feel), sometimes the bus doesn't detach a device right or assign it right and finding why that has happened makes you want to break the desk over your head, common with wireless usb adapters and usb sticks (mine thought it was still attached for over 24 hours after i'd taken it out it was still mounted!) I think the main issue with adsl modems for usb is that they are designed to run pretty on windows, all well and good until the device gives you grief in linux.. when you could end up rather stumped, i know a few people in the same situation where no configuration will appear to work because the hardware for no incompatability reason... just dislikes the way it's handled
On 04/04/06, Kevanf1 <kevanf1@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/04/06, Simon Faulkner <simon@titanic.co.uk> wrote:
> Andrew Edwards wrote:
> > stuart, in order to refrain from irritating people i think we should
> > move this to a p2p email so any more questions etc just forward to my email
>
> Don't panic on my behalf, I was learning as it went along!
>
Yeah, keep it on list Andrew. It is a learning experience for others.
As an aside, Stuart, I'd suggest that you may be better off getting
hold of an ethernet modem or modem router. Sometimes hardware is just
pants in Linux. Not the fault of Linux but the hardware manufacturers
don't write 'driver's for Linux (some do). It's left to the community
to write drivers and it is like working in the dark if the spec's are
not known. Besides which, an ethernet router/modem would be faster
than a USB one as the USB ones take some CPU time from your main
processor. This speed increase can sometimes be phenomenal.
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