[PRESTON] broadband and LInux]

[mark de vries]

Hello,

I am not a member of this mailing list, but got this message forwarded, as I 
have recently ugraded telewest dialup to telewest broadband. 

So to answer your question regarding linux and telewest broadband; you need a 
ethernet card. I bought an Edimax ethernet card for £5,- and my Debian system 
recognised it without much problems. The cable modem telewest provided me 
with has both a usb and an ethernet port. Connect the ethernet port to your 
network card and it should work after a bit of fiddling.

Cheers,

Mark.

 


On Friday 16 January 2004 04:47, you wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Did you ever try to connect directly to the modem with Linux, or only
> through the router?
>
> Maybe you can tell her "(Caroline <pooshouse at blueyonder.co.uk>)"
> something (from Preston Linux User Group)?
>
> cheers,
>
> martin
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> > From: Andrew King <andrew at andrewsworld.org>
> > To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Preston] broadband and LInux
> > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:37:41 +0000
> >
> > Caroline wrote:
> > > 'Ello!
> > >
> > > I was thinking of upgrading my Blueyonder (Telewest) dial-up to
> > > Blueyonder broadband, but it seems they aren't doing any more of the
> > > old ethernet connections. Instead of this they appear to run a USB
> > > cable, possibly to the digibox.
> > >
> > > Have any of you any idea if I will be able to use this type of
> > > connection under Linux? One of my main reasons for upgrading is to
> > > skip the mucking about with modems - I need it to plug and play, so to
> > > speak, or I'm not interested.
> > >
> > > Anyone?
> > >
> > > CAroline.
> >
> > Hi Caroline,
> >
> > First, I'd aim to find out exactly what model the USB modem is - make,
> > model, chipset, that kind of stuff.  Telewest will undoubtedly be really
> > difficult about telling you this but hopefully it can be squeezed out of
> > them.
> >
> > Once done, I'd then look into seeing if this device is supported - AFAIK
> > there are howtos on http://www.tldp.org/ which cover just this issue now
> > (e.g. USB broadband modems under Linux).  Could also be worth searching
> > the modem details on http://www.google.com/linux.  There's a device
> > database at www.linux-usb.org too.
> >
> > Here's one rule I've always stuck to and never regretted: never install
> > something in your kernel or run something as root that you don't have
> > the source for.  Others here may disagree - lots of people do get
> > winmodems and graphics cards working with binary only drivers for
> > instance, and no doubt some just don't have a choice.  But I'd recommend
> > that your next step is to make sure the source is available for
> > Telewest's modem, and to reject their scheme if it's not.  It's kind of
> > like pollution - you just don't know what it's doing, or how many bugs
> > are going to be in there that could take down your system.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > Ah, hang on, you said plug and play...  dunno.  But maybe some models do
> > work with the latest Mandrake, SuSe and Red Hat I guess.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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