Hi,

I am in the process of getting vSat satellite Broadband connection installed but have been told that it can only be connected to Windoze or a Mac. As I would much rather use Fedora Core 4 has anyone any experience of customizing linux to use this?
The sellers website only has this on their website FAQ
vSat 2-way modem is plugged into a Network interface card inside a customers PC
Any pointers to literature would be welcomed,

Tom

I know very little about this but I thought I could give you questions you could ask them. If the modem does all the authentication then I would say you could use linux with no problem, just copy off the network settings from the windows box. If it works like cable modems then most I have seen use the mac address off the computer connected to the modem to authenicate with. You can either pull the nic from the windows machine and install in the linux machine unless this is the same machine. If they say you can connect a cable/dsl router to it then you would have no problem connecting linux to that.

Hope this helps
Brian1

Thanks Brian,
I've noticed that a few vSat ISP's claim to be able to connect to Linux but give few details.
Tom

Lets us know how it goes. Include hardware used and how it is configured.

Brian1