[Preston] broadband and LInux

[David Farrell]

I got Telewest 1Meg, Motorola surfboard modem. Has both USB and 100BaseT
presentation. I use Ethernet - a wonderful network technology that is
quite popular these days, and is over 30 years old.

I can only imagine the USB interface will suck. You could always use USB
and WinXP and take advantage of its high end internet connection sharing
feature....

-----Original Message-----
From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Caroline
Sent: 15 January 2004 20:35
To: preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Preston] broadband and LInux

'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.


PS.
Sorry about the sketchy details. I've just had a frustrating
conversation 
with a woman on the phone:

She:	An engineer will come out and install it under Windows.
Me:	But will it work with Linux?
She: 	We will only install it under windows. Putting it on Linux is up
to 
the customer.
Me:	But will it work with Linux? If it *will* work then I can
probably find 
out how to do it, but if it *won't* work at all then there's not really 
much point in me having it.

She didn't say much else after this. Can't think why. I am Customer 
Services worst nightmare sometimes.



And the other day, too:

Man on telesales:	What version of Windows are you running?
Me:	Mandrake 9.1   (I 'forgot' about my laptop and the other
partitons)