On May 25, 2004 08:59 am, Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good afternoon all.
I was hoping some one could recommend a PCI based ADSL modem (or usb at a stretch) that is supported natively within Fedora Core2.
I would recommend against an internal ADSL modem. There maybe an odd one that comes with Linux support but they are a nuisance. Just like internal modems if they crash, AFAIK you will be forced to reboot you machine to reset it. I
I'm using a Bewan PCI ST ADSL modem for 2 years now and I did not had any real pbs with it and especially, it never brought the machine down.
The machine is running 24/7.
So if your assumption might be true in some cases (eg with bad hardware and/or bad driver), it's definitly not the rule. One can use the same argument for every piece of hardware, and one end up with just a mainboard and a lot of strange stuff connected all around the main box. (soundcard, network card, etc...) It's quite stupid in my opinion ;-)
Back to the main topic, this adsl card is unfortunatly not supported natively under FC1 and surely not in FC2 too (not tested though).
But it's a pretty card with well maintained open source drivers.
Regards,
Xavier
