Robert C Wittig wrote: > I'm not positive, being somewhat of a newbie myself, but I think that > support for NIC's and modems is built into the Linux kernel, and most > new, cutting-edge distros are going to be using the same, > latest-greatest kernel. > > If I'm wrong, hopefully, one of the list gurus will jump in and correct me.
You're right, but modems are quite a different beast than LAN cards. > On the 'linux' Yahoo list (Linux_Newbies is operated by the same people) > there is a person having a similar problem with a D-Link modem. It could > be that D-Link is just not very Linux-friendly. Lies! I have tons of D-Link NICs and all of them work wonderfully, from 10BaseT up to gigabit ethernet. Like I said, modems are quite different, so I wouldn't judge their NICs based on their modems. Chad Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hjscl2d/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123267016/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
