[ILUG] Followup 1: Naive ADSL/WiFi questions (long (sorry!))?

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
  | Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:06:10 +0100
  |[ ... ]
  | I never found an ethernet card that did _not_ work with Linux
  |[ ... ]
  | Incidentally, don't all computers nowadays have ethernet built-in?

 I've no idea.  the issue here is two-fold:
 1st, my computer is sufficiently old it does not
     have a built-in Ethernet.
 2nd, my Linux distro is sufficiently old that I'm
     _guessing_ there are more “modern” NIC chipsets
     it does not support.
 updating my distro over the (current) 56K straw is
 a non-starter (and I'd rather not play around with
 adding a driver/module).

  |[ ... ]
  | I'm not an expert at this, but don't you have to put a "splitter"
  | on the phone line somewhere, to split computer and phone(s)?

 yes, to the best of my knowledge you do.  in my
 case, that — and maybe also the relevant cable
 (I don't know) — comes with the ADSL modem kit
 (which I do not yet have).  my understanding is
 the splitter unit here in France just plugs into
 the normal French telephone socket — which is not
 an RJ-anything, but this massive T-shaped thingy
 about the size of yer thumb (French telephone
 sockets and plugs look like something from the
 18th century, back when “miniture” meant “smaller
 than a steam locomotive”).

cheers!
	-blf-
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