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Title: Needin' Das Un Helpin.
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 23, 2004, 02:58:57 PM

Anyone know how to connect a laptop, using a 10/100 PCMCIA NIC card, to a desktop, which has a NIC card in it, so the laptop can use the desktop's network connection to get to the internet?

Title: Re: Needin' Das Un Helpin.
Post by: Sminja on March 27, 2004, 01:37:27 AM

I have no idea...did the linking card (or whaever it is) come with instructions relating to things like that? All the help I can give you is just to say search on the net for that stuff. Its bound to be out there somewhere.

Title: Re: Needin' Das Un Helpin.
Post by: EUOL on March 27, 2004, 05:01:24 AM

They way we do it, Gemm, is by creating a LAN.  Others--most especially Tage--are more knowledgeable about this than I, but I believe you buy a hub, connect the internet to that, then run plugs out of the hub to various computers so they can all use the same internet connection.

Title: Re: Needin' Das Un Helpin.
Post by: GorgonlaVacaTremendo on March 27, 2004, 11:38:22 AM

That should work, it's how the laptop in our house works.

Title: Re: Needin' Das Un Helpin.
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 27, 2004, 02:36:39 PM

Or as someone pointed out to me you'd need a cross-over cable.