On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:46:41PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > > My assumption is it shouldn`t really matter but communications is not > > my area of expertise. > > Yeah, as long as it uses standard 802.11b or 802.11g for the wireless > side (all consumer devices do) and standard Ethernet for the wired > side (ditto), buying a wireless router should be completely > platform-agnostic. I have seen some older routers that required a Windows-based application to configure them (they should all work fine from any computer once configured, though). There were hacks to get Linux to do the configuration, but they didn't cover all of the functionality. I also have a D-Link VoIP adapter for Primus' TalkBroadband service that initially refused to be configured through their web-browser based configuration tool under Firefox. Tech support said I had to use IE to configure the thing. I figured out that if you disable and re-enable Javascript at just the right moments, it can still be done from Linux (though it is a pain). For people buying a new wireless router, I'd suggest getting one that is supported by one of DD-WRT or Openwrt, as then you can actually fix problems with it, expand it into a fully functioning server, or share your internet connection properly with something like FON (http://en.fon.com). Kevin.