On Friday 24 March 2006 21:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tom Massey wrote: > > > Morning, > > > > > > Does anybody have any information about whether this ADSL router works > > > with Linux? From my reading, it seems that it would work fine, just > > > plug into the Ethernet port and use the web interface to configure > > > rather than the Windows software, but I don't know enough about the > > > beasts to be sure. > > > > Never heard of this hardware. But any thing with a web interface is > > usually Linux friendly. > > The Web interface in my old D-Link DSL-302G ADSL modem/router only works > with IE. All other Web browsers get a blank page or fail to authenticate > properly. I have no idea how they managed to pull that off - it feels > almost deliberate. To change the settings, I had to either reboot to > Windows (which I am loathe to do) or run IE through WINE. I was able to > duplicate this behaviour on several units. D-Link assured me that the modem > is OS independent, but despite my complaining they never fixed this issue. > > For this reason and a few others (for one, their support is appalling), I > have sworn never to purchase a D-Link product ever again. Companies who > don't treat their customers with respect deserve no respect from me.
Or tell konqueror to say it's IE under Xp (most others also do this, konqueror is particularly easy) An ethernet router does not care about the computer on its network. So linux is irrelevant. It works. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
