On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 18:18, Jannu Hatinen wrote: > Cheers, > > I'm planning to get an ADSL connection, and was wondering what kind > of modem I should buy. It's quite obvious that the external > stand-alone modem/routers should work just fine, but what about the > other options? Do internal PCI modems and external USB modems work on > Gentoo? > > I'm planning to use one Gentoo system as a router/firewall for the > rest of the network, so I have no need for the router/firewall > capacities of the stand-alone modems.
I use an external Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem (looks like a frog). There is a speedtouch ebuild for it. You have to download the firmware for it separately, or pinch it from a Windows installation. That means that for an install from scratch you can't get internet connection out-of-the-box ... a bit of a problem for first-time Gentooers. I do installs from an existing linux partition to get over this. Peter -- ================================================== Gentoo Linux: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 kernel-2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ ================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
