[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Rob Sharp]

A quick google tells me that the card uses the via-rhine module, ans so
depending on your distro will either be picked up automagically or you
will have to manually use modprobe. Do you have an existing Linux distro
installed?

Rob.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:11:37 +0000, "Steven A. McIntosh"
<steven at driving-for-life.co.uk> said:
> On Friday 16 January 2004 12:49, Rob Sharp wrote:
> > I know that the cable modem used by NTL works in USB mode if you load the
> > CDCEther module. I imagine it'll be a very similar setup for blueyonder.
> >
> > Realistically though, get an ethernet connection as it's way more
> > flexible. I find that using USB has more overhead in terms of game
> > playing too: Enemy Territory has a lot more connection problems using USB
> > compared to my onboard ethernet, but I do use a USB keyboard and mouse...
> 
> > >
> > > Yip; make sure you get an Ethernet rather than a USB modem; the
> > > connection "just works" - DHCP to provide IP address. I'm using
> > > Mandrake, and the Mandrake Control Centre did everything for me...
> > > There are some pretty savvy folk hang around in blueyonder.comp.linux
> > > once you are connected.
> 
> I was planning to use eth1 with a dlink DFE-530TX
> 
> Do you think that will be OK.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
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