USB to NTL cable (Re: [Nottingham] linux laptop with printing)

[Nick B.]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:10:23PM +0000, Martin wrote:


I cant comment on the Mandrake setup but Debian worked out of the box
with the 2.4.18-bf kernel.
Already had an eth0 configured for use with pcmcia card on my home network
with dhcp. I just decided to try  out the  usb at my girlfriends one day out of curiosity.
It found the modem OK but I needed to install hotplug and
some other usb utils to get it to configure as eth0. 
All I do now is show it the cable modem and it works flawlessly.
(Thats better than win98 mk1, it never did work with that!)

There was also a thread about it in news:ntl.discussion.linux fairly
recently. Mandrake 9 was mentioned as working OK.

OTOH if youve got ethernet then the NTL modems come with both rj45 and
usb, ethernet is the preferred method due to the processing overheads.
At home Ive got my CM working via a SMC7004ABR broadband router, that
handles the dhcp stuff to anything on the private side of the network,
as well as the NAT.
Runs H24 and Ive had the same ip address since I registered it in
November! 

If youre new to CM then you might also want to take a look at Robin
Walkers pages: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/

HTH
Nick B.


> Nick B. wrote:
> 
> >Working: Xfree86 4.1, Gnome 1.4, USB sync to handspring visor, USB to
> >NTL cable modem.
> 
> 
> Any issues with the USB to NTL bit?
> 
> 
> I'll be trying that in a few days when NTL swap me over to 'broadband'...
> 
> Martin
> 
> (Mandrake 9.0 on a MSI K7T-Pro2RU mobo desktop)
> 
> 
> 
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