On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > PM wrote: > >On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Aron Smith wrote: > >>>On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>>Bryan Phinney wrote: > >>>>>On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL > >>>>> modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. > >>>>> > >>>>>Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up > >>>>> to your ethernet card and should be as close to plug and play as you > >>>>> get. The USB option is more likely to result in possible > >>>>> compatibility problems. > >>>> > >>>>But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go > >>>> with your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? > >>> > >>>MCC will configure your card real nice > >>> > >>>>John > >> > >>When you say configured, that is as a card recognised by the systen and > >>a device to be used by the system, you don't mean as part of the network > >> ? > >> > >> > >>John > > > >Mcc will do both, for eth0, likely to have a few more problems with a > >second card (eth1). > > OK then I bow to experience. > Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC > still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without > those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to set up a network. > > I just don't find it clear whether setting up a router/modem plus > ethernet can be done with nothing more than getting the devices > recognised by the system, or that you also have to have the beginning of > a network as well. The netgear cd will set up the restall browser based even do a firewall (but shorewall is better) > > John
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