On February 10, 2004 11:52 am, Robin Laing wrote: > Router can also provide some firewall features providing more > security. Some are wireless and can aslo be used as a hub to connect > other computers. I don't know a damn thing about networking but I just bought an inexq isw050t wireless router and it works (wired) fine with my dual boot win2k / FC1 system. However, it worked right off in Win2k, but it broke KDE severely at first (could not start). After I edited the Firewall->DMZ section of the configuration in Windows to tell the router to stop trying to firewall this machine, then linux started working properly again. (httpd is still broken, but I tried some different stuff when I couldn't boot, so the problem with httpd might be my fault, not the router's.) I suspec what people say here and what local folks told me before I bought the hardware is true--this stuff is pretty straightforward and should work fine with Linux (although it's complex and confusing to anyone who does not solidly understand networking, which I don't). (My roommate has a laptop running Win98se, with a wireless USB connector and she's sharing my ADSL connection now, whether I'm running Win2k or FC1.) -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
