Cable modem, router, and network card

[Peter Reed]

Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:36, Peter Reed wrote:
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>>I was about to purchase a cable modem, router and nic card Any sugestions on
>>what I should purchase for the above would be appreciated. I of course run
>>fedora so something that will be compatible with fedora would be optimal.  And
>>thank you for all the fine reading.
>>Peter Reed
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>Peter,
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>Here in Bellsouth land they provided the modem for free after rebates. 
>The modem has router and firewall capabilities, but only one ethernet
>port.  I needed a few more.  I purchased a D-Link 614 wireless/wired
>router.  It works fine, but...
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>I could not update the firmware from linux.  This was required as the
>router crashed and would not reboot following a certain wireless setup. 
>The firmware upgrade seems to have fixed it, but it was web-based and
>required IE.  D-Link offers no Linux support, they do windows and not
>much else (read that any way you like).
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>The other web-based configuration tools work fine with Galeon/Mozilla.
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>Recommendation:  Look at Linksys, at least their routers are Linux
>based.  Yes, I've read about the GPL issues with Linksys.
>
>Bob...
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>Thanks for all the help however my biggest concern is the network card for my machine. From what I have read on this list they can lead to some real trouble.  Any info on what card will work with fedora and/or linux in general would be a big help.    I will probably go with the linksys router but, the network card would be the biggest issue.  I do not need wireless on my desktop so just a good network card that is compatible with linux.  The modem will might be an issue since Adelphia says I must have windows so I will probably have to reload winxp back on to the machine for the initial setup.  
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Peter