[Sderby] Re: modem compatibiltiy

[James Gibbon]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:56:51 +0000
Conrad Gavin <gubbs at fudo.org> wrote:

> As long as its ethernet, there is no compatability issue. 
> 
> If its USB, thats a different matter. 
> 

That's true: it's a lot easier to connect a cable modem using bog-standard ethernet
which is obviously very well-supported in every distro.  But as a matter of fact it
is quite possible to hook up a Linux box to an NTL cable modem using the USB connection
with a bit of effort - I did so myself for a while, it worked fine under Mandrake 9.2.
For users who want to use the ethernet NIC for something else, worth investigating.

James