On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 19:08 -0700, Dave Smith wrote: > A teenager in my neighborhood is learning about Ethernet LANs. He wants > to network his home desktop and an old laptop. I agreed to help, but his > laptop does not have a built-in Ethernet port. To that end, I wonder if > anyone has either a PCMCIA Ethernet adapter or a USB Ethernet adapter > that they would like to donate to the cause.
Dude teach him to scratch his own itch! Help him hack up a Linux driver to turn the serial port into a DIY Ethernet adapter. It'll be the world's first 0.25baseT Ethernet! -- When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
