ADSL and Wi-fi

[thunderhorse]

[Quote]Prerequisites.

To obtain the Service, the Customer must have: an independent France

Telecom analog line, a touchtone telephone, a modem supplied by

Teleconnect, a PC computer using Windows 98 SE, Millenium, 2000 or XP (apparently Linux OK) with at least 128M of active memory ; an Ethernet connection; and, optionally, an active USB port and a wi-fi adapter key or integrated wi-fi.

If these prerequisites are not met, quality of Service cannot be

assured and Customer may not be technically supported by Teleconnect.[/Quote]

Teleconnect

can offer me a good ADSL deal. My current Wanadoo Livebox works fine

under Mepis 6.0 (Linux) (ethernet connection). Do I have to have this wi-fi

adapter key? What is it? I have a Dell Dimension 3000, plenty of USB

ports, but no experience with wi-fi.

Many thanks for help. 

[Pierre ZFP]

I think it's just a bit of bad wording. What they mean is that the PC/laptop can optionally have a wi-fi receiver either built in or an external one plugged into a USB port or presumably PCIMCA card.  You don't have to use wi-fi, you can use your normal ethernet cable

[thunderhorse]

Many thanks. They supply a wi-fi modem, so that means it can be used as wi-fi OR ethernet?

Cheers.

[Pierre ZFP]

If by ethernet you mean an actual physical cable between the router and the PC then yes, just about all wireless routers have an additional socket to do just this

[Bob T]

You might have a problem with Linux and WiFi though. Most distributions of Linux anre not very good with WiFi or any USB bits. I use the ethernet cable with Linux due to this problem.

[thunderhorse]

Thanks, peeps. As long as it's got an ethernet socket, then I understand it should be OK. I know some Linux distros have trouble with USB modems. But the Livebox works fine via ethernet. [:D]