Marcia, I have seen some replies to this, but don't think any of them have yet touched on a crucial point: Your laptop is running W98, so would therefore be much more safely disposed sitting behind your linux box in internet terms.
Does the laptop have an ethernet port, or can it be added? If so, to my mind the best scenario would be for the laptop to be connected to the linux machine via ethernet - just a crossover cable between the two would do this. Then you set up internet connection sharing and firewall on the linux box. Add samba and you have the laptop able to share the cable connection from behind a firewall, and move files/share printers between the two machines. Assuming that neither box has a network card (as you indicated the cable modem is connected via USB), total cost for this would be almost nothing for a NIC for the desktop and somewhat more for the laptop. Like my budgeting? I have no idea what is available for the laptop, but you can probably get a PCMCIA NIC for it. HTH Brian On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 06:41, Marcia wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a desktop with LM8.2 that is connected to a cable modem through a > cable wire and a laptop with Win98 that can work with cable also or with a > dial-up modem. The cable modem is a Toshiba DOCSIS that also can be hooked up > through USB. My laptop has USB so I was wondering if I could hook it up to > the cable modem through the USB hook-up so that I could share the internet > and network between the laptop and desktop? Does anyone have any ideas how I > may set this up? Thanks. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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