[CLUE-Tech] phoneline cards

[Angelo Bertolli]

When I was living at home, we had phoneline cards which worked with 
Windows.  I could never get it to work with Linux, but we also happened 
not to have the ones with Broadcom chips (none of them actually).  So 
first, I would like to know if there are any other brands/types of 
phoneline cards.  But if you say Broadcom owns the standard, I guess 
not.  The second question is, if I wanted to go this way, how could I 
make sure I got ones with Broadcom chips?  I mean they're packaged 
identically, so there's no way to tell.

Angelo

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:06:44 -0400, Angelo Bertolli
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>>I am thinking about getting a phoneline card instead of wireless router
>>+ wireless cards for a home network.  Does anyone have one  of these
>>working with Linux?
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>Hmmm, I never heard of this, but a brief round of googling provided me
>the basics. Read the articles at
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>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/61.
>http://anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1568
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>I appears that most of the cards are based on a Broadcom chip, that
>Broadcom owns the standard and is not releasing much info, and that
>there are some sort of binary drivers for linux, a la nvidia and ati.
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>HTH,
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