Satillite Modem & linux?

[Antimatter]

I'm planning on saving up some money this school year so i can buy an cheapish centeralized server for my parent's house, basically what i am planning on doing is to route all of the internet traffice into this server which would have a wireless access card to provide internet access to the rest of the house, and the rest of the computers are probably going to be running window xp or in case of my computer dual booting xp and gentoo linux.

Anyway i would suspect that would be an pretty simple operation to setup, because my brother does alots of gaming so i probably won't do that severe of firewalling or any of that sort, i basically would setup security to protect the server itself, and perhaps setup an e-mail server on it that would automaticaly download e-mail, spam filter and virus scan them before sending it to its clients. anyway i would think that is an fairly standard setup.

however there's only one catch, is my modem, its an starband satillite modem that hooks up to the USB ports, so i'm wondering if there's any information on geting an satillite modem to work, i think it requires an speical software to run but i'm not sure because i had a firewall on the window xp machine and it blocked almost everything so the program would complain that the modem wasn't working but it keept on working just fine *Shungs*


so is there any form of information on how to setup an server using an satillite modem w/ an usb plugin? I'm going to base my decidision off the reponses, if the odds of geting it up is fairly poor, i probably will still give it a shot but in the end probably would end up sticking a window xp os on there.

Main reason why i want to go after linux is because i'm attempting or hopes to construct an cheap low end server say athon xp 2500 w/ basic motherboard and say 512 meg of ram, 40 gig harddrive etc... no video card etc.... and the reason why i pick linux is i am more familar w/ seting it up and making it more secure and more stable than window xp, i want to be able to setup an linux system secure it up then leave it on for say an year or two, and when i'm home i can update and do mantaiance on it or perhaps i could setup an sshd daemon and access it from college to do mantaintance.

so there any information on this topic?

[NeddySeagoon]

Antimatter,

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