[Glastonbury] Re: new to linux

[KEITHSLINUX at aol.com]

In a message dated 26/11/2004 14:27:04 GMT  Standard Time, 
tony at whittycat.me.uk writes:
ROY MONAGHAN writes:  

>  I am new to Linux, I have installed on my laptop RED-Hat 8.0  the problem  
that I am having is hard ware related.First network I use a WI  Fi system on 
XP but it does not work on Linux, modems is an other problem.Is  there a list 
of hard ware that is compatible with Linux?? or is there a way of  
configuration.

I have Red Hat 8.0 and an Actiontec wireless adapter  talking to a Netgear
ethernet router. What type of wireless adapter do you  have and is it PCI,
PCMCIA or USB? I use the linux-wlan-ng driver but there  are others. As for
the modem, the main thing is not to waste time on a USB  modem it won't work;
you need an ethernet modem aka a router. Doesn't matter  much which. 

Tony Sumner  

USB modems do work with Linux all speedtouch usb modems work, a lot of zoom  
modems and even some of the BT modems work plus i bet theirs a  lot more that 
will work, try looking for eciadsl drivers for your modem, as for  the WIFI i 
have only managed to get my intel 2100 working using  mandrake 10.1 did try 
with redhat 9 and suse but had no luck yet  but i will try again as there have 
been some new builds for the  drivers since i last tried 
 
Keith ;O)