[Sussex] Broadband Linux for Mike Diack!: Was re: a bit of news

[Steve Dobson]

Mike

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:00:58AM +0100, Mike Diack wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> Thanks for all the advice.
> I may take you up re: help Gareth - at the mo, I'm just pricing the options 
> up
> and seeing which ISPs seem most open ended re: use of Linux etc.
> I do have a 3com 3c509 ethernet card - is that adequate as the ethernet
> part of the equation? I know that the kernel support for them is good.

IFAIK all the 3Com's IP stuff is fine.  I have a 3c905 (not the 509) in 
one of my LAN machines and it works just fine.  I know there is support
in the kernel for the 509.

Steve