Hi all, In another thread over on the hardware board I decided on a server set-up but I'm a bit stuck as to the OS software I should run on it. First off, the major thing the server must do is: - share content off attached hard drives (easy for anything I guess) - allow me to connect AND SHARE VIA A WIRELESS ADAPTER mobile broadband off a USB stick - run SlimDevices 'SqueezeCentre' media software (again, easy for anything probably) I'm looking at Linux because its free and I don't need GUI, but I've never really used Linux before. That doesn't put me off as I like a challenge but obviously I don't know how it works really. I have been looking at ClarkConnect as that is what was recommended to run the SqueezeCentre software but I'm not at all conviced it'll work with the mobile broadband. So, can someone recommend a decent Linux distro which doesn't hog resources that will primarily allow me to (a) use a mobile broadband stick and (b) route that internet connection through a connected wireless adapter easily. Cheers, Andy
Not sure if any linux distros have built-in support for these 3G USB dongles. I think the thing to do is find a USB stick that provides linux drivers. I know you can use NDISwrapper for wireless cards with no linux drivers so you can use windows drivers. That might work with USB dongles and windows drivers?
Thanks for the reply. After my original post I went for Ubuntu which does have native support for USB modems and for a while it worked great. I then decided to set up an ad-hoc network to share the internet to my laptop but it flatly refused to work whatever I did. I even had someone off the Ubuntu forums getting me to try this that and the other which only had the effect of breaking the native USB modem connectivity meaning I then had no access on either of my machines. Rubbish! I gave up at that point as a bad job and gone back to just using my Vista laptop as before and scrapped the whole idea!
