[svlug] Starband PCI cards & Linux box

Drew Bertola drew at drewb.com
Tue Mar 6 18:04:05 PST 2001


Any chance the PCI card uses a known ethernet chipset?  What does
/proc/pci say about it?

Al Udal writes:
> Hi, I'm a pretty much of a newbie in this Linux world,
> but I'm also a pilot tester of Starband 2-way satellite broadband
> Internet access system. It is based on Win98SE box which I tweaked
> to its limits and beyond (well, sometimes...). Feel like I have hit the 
> ceiling with pretty crappy Windoze TCP/IP stack.
> 
> Now I want to experiment with Starband system on Linux, but there's
> no drivers for its Tx/Rx PCI cards, and Starband tech support for beta testers
> promises that those will never be written.
> 
> I'm thinking of using VMWare, or WINE (or what else?) to try to wrap the 
> problem. Any suggestions? Any Linux gurus over there ever tried Starband, to
> tell me couple of words?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alexander Udalov,
> unemployed pilot tester,
> San Jose, eastern hills
> 
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