[ale] USB 2 RJ-45 adapterRe: [ale] USB 2 RJ-45 adapter

[cfowler]

USB and ethernet are different.  that adapter is a USB 10/100 NIC.  Just like
a nic card in you PC.  So you can not buy an adapter to convert a PCI slot
into RJ45 just as you can not convert the USB on this device with 100Base-T. 
That would require drivers in the Bellsouth device and I doubt it has such
goodies.

This adds a new requirement to my ADSL purchase moto.

Old:

"No PPPOE and NO DHCP"

New:

"Damn It I want bridged ethernet and no DHCP crap!"

On 12/31/1969, "David S. Jackson" <dsj at sylvester.dsj.net> wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:40:25PM +0000 cfowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Will not work.
>>
>> This type of modem requires a direct plug into a PC.
>
>Why?
>
>An adapter that connects to a PC USB port can translate to an RJ-45
>socket back and forth.  Is it a power problem (adapter gets power from
>the PC/notebook USB port)?  Can't the adapter get power from the DSL
>modem as well?
>
>> I doubt there is a
>> router that can be purchased that will accept this kind of input?
>
>He already has a wireless base station, and he doesn't want to run out
>and buy another.  (Said device already cost about $170 or so.)  I asked
>if he had an old PC or notebook that I could configure to do the job for
>him (maybe he could get his money back for the base station), but he
>didn't have any such.
>
>All I can think is that he should get another DSL modem from somewhere.
>It seems like you could configure them to be compatible even with Bell
>South, since even DSL modems have embedded webservers nowadays.
>
>
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