On Monday 16 June 2003 21:25, you wrote: > It sounds like they are trying to make networking as difficult as > possible by making it necessary to use a crossover cable to connect to > the modem. I don't believe that going into the hub would work for you > because of the crossover cable issue.
Well, they supplied a crossover cable, but I had an extra regular cable and I tried hooking it to the hub with that and that was when my wife's machine could see it. So I thought that perhaps I could just switch back to that. > > The cheapest and quickest way to get your wife online would be to > install a second network card and enable Internet Connection Sharing > using the Mandrake Control Center. I think you would need a second > crossover cable to get from the second NIC in the Mandrake box to your > wife's Windows box. Well, the hub should work, I don't think I need a second crossover cable. Its been working for a long time, I was using it to network PPP connections. Granted nott the best solution but then where we were for a while there was no DSL access at all. Its only now that we have it, and ironically we're out in the boonies whereas we were in the midst of a fairly good size city and we couldn't get DSL or cable. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. The point is that I don't think I need a crossover because the hub does work between our two computers. Tom Williams
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