Just checked out the newbie website (the faq mostly) and want to say that that's a great idea! thanks for going to the effort for us!
Unfortunately, i was unable to find out what i was looking for. I'm attempting to home network my win xp box with an older ibm running mandrake 9.0 via ethernet cards and a crossover (brand new) rj45 cable. I've googled for this info and found what sounded like it would work. it said to go into my network places and share an internet connection. it said that the network card that is connected to the internet is the one to share. i then configured the mandrake's network connection (using the wizard and without the wizard) and assigned the ip address to the mandrake as that which shows up on the windows box (192.168.0.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0). during the configuration process, the status of the ethernet card on the winxp box shows packets sent and some received. i figured that that should do it, however, i cannot get out on the linux box. also, when the extra card is enabled, it messes up my regular connection and i can't get out on the winxp box. is there something i'm missing? do i need to install something else on the linux computer? as it sits, i need to keep the winxp computer as the main machine with the primary internet connection and share it with the linux computer (not ideal, i suppose, but it's the compromise that i must accept...for now).
thanks,
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