Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?
Kuraiken wrote: hello people, i just started using linux like a month ago, and i just noticed i got a damn winmodem heh. please reply with the modem you use for linux, pleeasee, also i just wanted to know if their is a way to network 2 linux computers together through the parallel port, if you have any ideas for home networking etc. please respond, thanks a ton! -tac Your best bet for modems on Linux are external modems. I do not know if there are any external winmodems but I think this is unlikely. I've had cases where even the cheapest taiwanese externals (no-name!) work fine. But be careful of internal ones. Do not go for PCI modems as they all seem to be winmodems...like mine :-( ISA modems would require you ro run isapnp tools to configure it in Linux. This is a command line program. Plug-N-Play modems require isapnptools. There are alot of ISA modems that allow you to turn of PnP mode. My Zoom 56k internal is one of them. No need for isapnptools here. So to sum it up - best bet: get an external modem. Yup. As for parrallel port...I'll leave that to the gurus on the list (am I right in saying you need to use PLIP?) :-) With the price of a pair of NE2k cards being around $20-30, why even bother with PLIP? SOHO Basics (made by Accton) are probably the cheapest Taiwanese hardware pieces I've ever seen, but I've been really happy with them. I think the NICs were around $10, the 4 port hub was $20. Toss in a pair of network cables and you're done for under $50. And you've got room to add two more computers to the network when the urge strikes you. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?
As for parrallel port...I'll leave that to the gurus on the list (am I right in saying you need to use PLIP?) :-) With the price of a pair of NE2k cards being around $20-30, why even bother with PLIP? SOHO Basics (made by Accton) are probably the cheapest Taiwanese hardware pieces I've ever seen, but I've been really happy with them. I think the NICs were around $10, the 4 port hub was $20. Toss in a pair of network cables and you're done for under $50. And you've got room to add two more computers to the network when the urge strikes you. Steve is right. That is dirt cheap. However, if you can, spend the little extra in getting a PCI NIC. Ones with the RTL 8029 chip are widely used by the cheap-o-rama Taiwanese manufacturers. And these are extremely easy to set up. I've used these at work for a long time with no problems. (our server has been on Linux since RedHat5.0). With RedHat and Mandrake's install / setup it works first time every time. (Set to NE2000 PCI) Regards, -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] linux compatible modems, and home networking?
In a message dated 3/13/99, 2:08:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello people, i just started using linux like a month ago, and i just noticed i got a damn winmodem heh. please reply with the modem you use for linux, pleeasee, also i just wanted to know if their is a way to network 2 linux computers together through the parallel port, if you have any ideas for home networking etc. please respond, thanks a ton! -tac !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN" HTML HEAD META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVFONT size=2hello people, i just started using linux like a month ago, and i just noticed i got a damn winmodem heh. please reply with the modem you use for linux, pleeasee, also i just wanted to know if their is a way to network 2 linux computers together through the parallel port, if you have any i i have a 56efx externel modem that works in linux it was 29 bucks at OfficeMax
