As a telstra cable user, my advise is to go and build a cheap firewall
like smoothwall or something and run it through that. a hub or switch
would be good but you don't need one if your only running 1 computer.
Its easy to set up and if you decide to go that way I will offer any
help you need as I run 4 of these myself.
G.Chinnery.
Dale Anderson wrote:
How are you using the modem ...via ethernet card or USB ?
Via ethernet all you need to do is set your IP and plug it in .
The driver it is refering to will be your networkcard driver not the
external modem.
Dale.
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:16, Ataif wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to this list, and to Linux, and I know b*gger all about
computers, but I need to reconnect my PC now that I've installed Linux
(Mandrake 10). I get to the point where I'm asked what network/driver
to use and I haven't a clue. How do I find this out. I presume the
modem (Motorola Surfboard hired from TelstraClear) is a standard one
and that it should be easy, but Telstra's help deask say it isn't
worth the company's time rtying to support Linux. There is a guy there
called Bob who might ring me when he comes back from leave or
something, but I wondered if anyone else could help me.
Thanks,
John Edmundson
