Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 08:31, Antoniak Adam escreveu: > I've been using Red Hat 9.0 for a few months and consider moving to Fedora. > I also would like to change my internet provider to get a faster connection (still using dial up modem :-( ). > I'm considering D-Link DFE-528TX NEC. Any problems known with this particular card? > Googled the net but didn't find any final statements. > Will it be automatically detected or I will need additional drivers? > As far as I know it uses an RTL8139C chipset. > Had any of u good or bad experience with this card? I don't know about this particular D-link model, but if it uses rtl8139, you can run just every OS you can figure with. Fedora, older redhat versions, openbsd, netbsd, even windows :-) This is a network card, although, what makes me think you are changing to something like ADSL. Explaining VEEERY shortly, there are two kinds of adsl connection, - one where the modem connects and takes care of even supplying your username and password. The modem has a DHCP server, so you don't need to configure anything. Boot and surf. Its much easier to put several computers in one single modem this way. - the other one, the PPPoE, looks preety much like a dial-up connection, where the computer takes care of sending username, password, and receives the ip directly from the internet provider. If you want to share this connection, you need a computer which will connect and share itself the connection, which means this computer has always to be on. The advantages is that as you have a real ip, you can set up your own servers, and allow outside connections to it. Much more fun for a geek :-) -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
