Yesterday I was trying to resolve an issue on a mates new Acer

All_in_one PC. It was one like this:

http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/model/PW.SEUE2.084

He was having issues with it randomly seeing his (VirginMedia branded

Netgear cable-) router but was ok with a neighbours Netgear..

As an exercise (and an opportunity for me <g>) I booted both Mint 10

and U11.10 LiveCds to see if it was a OS / Driver or 'other issue'.

Mint 10 didn't see the Realtek WiFi but Ubuntu did and like W7 could

only 'see' their neighbours router.

My Mint 10 / XP netbook could see and connect to both routers straight

off.

Once I'd figured out the admin access to their router I changed the

Channel selection from 'Auto' to a free channel and the speed down

from 300Mbps to 145 and everything seemed to work fine.

I specifically meant to try Unity but because we were keen to sort the

connection out it wasn't the right 'time'.

I also tried Mint on their old PC but that was connected to the

Internet via a USB 'Dial-up' ADSL modem and I wasn't sure what was

needed to make that work. I suggested that had they not been going

over to cable I would have stuck a cheap modem/router in there but I

am still interested to know if you can typically use these modems with

Linux?

Cheers, T i m

p.s. They were talking of giving the old PC to their grandson so I

offered to stick Linux on there (probably dual boot) because of some

of the good Edutainment stuff you can get.