Re: [SLUG] Big Pond Advance Satellite Service

[Doug Stalker <dougs@nospam.technologist.com>]

There are third party (ie: unsupported by Telstra) drivers available from
www.helius.com.  Note that these are not open source and only support
certain linux distribustions.  You also need to pay to license the software.

A DAK card is a PCI card that you connect the satellite dish to.  It is
treated in Windows as a network card (using the supplied drivers) and in
linux as interface dpc0 (using helius software)

 - Doug

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Barrie Hall wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone had any experience / have any comments about Big Pond Advance
> Satellite service under Linux?
>
> Does anyone have this service working under Linux?
>
> Does anyone know what a 'DAK' card is?
>
> Cheers and TIA
>
> Barrie
>
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