On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 08:51, Mike Chambers wrote: > Has anyone used this with linux yet? Friend has Direct TV and is getting > the internet connection associated with it. I will be the one helping to > get it setup for linux if possible and not sure if it's supported, or how it > connects to it yet until he tells me. > > Anyone had luck with this yet or heard about it? If it is similar to the one Bell offers here in Canada, you get a card that plugs into the computer. There is special software that brings the card online and reconfigures your browsing. You still need a phone line and a dial-up isp. Any outbound packets go through the dialup to the sat station which then directs incoming information down the DTV stream. I'm not sure if two way is supported as of yet. If you have DTV at home, you can check channel 227 I think. They have the DWAY info channel on there. That might answer some preliminary questions. www.directv.com may also have some info on it. As a side note, last year my buddy was demoing the expressvu system next door to me. It was a really terrible setup and no matter how much you tried it wouldn't work very well. Bell sent a couple of techs out to check it over and they finally pulled it. But then a year in the computer and satellite industry is like 10 in anything else. YMMV. -- -=/>Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 Up: 9:41am up 4 days, 21:17, 1 user, load average: 1.73, 1.83, 2.42 Registered Linux User #214499 http://counter.li.org -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
