On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:49, Nick Rout wrote:
> Does ihug still run it's satellite internet service? I see no reference
> to it on a quick cruise of their site.
>
> The real reason I am asking is that I am after a satellite TV card and
> it struck me that the PCI cards they used might be able to pick up
> satellite TV - in fact I know that they can, but there are driver
> issues. For example I belive that in BillVille they will only work on
> W98 but not on NT/2000/XP.
>
> So I guess it boils down to this:
>
> 1. is the service still running?
Yes, with another owner
>
> 2. if not, where are all the tellemann skymedia 200d cards? (and did
> they remain the poroperty of ihug or should they all be flooding
> trademe?)
AFAIK, the property of IHUG, but they have not asked me for mine.
> 3. do they work with a 2.6 kernel?
Tellemean has a bad reputation with Linux. A driver came out of IHUG
which worked with 2.4.x if you held your tongue right as it compiled. I
did not see any driver for 2.6
> 4. assuming satisfactory answers above, does anyone have one to sell?
Yup, me.
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