On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:14:41AM -0400, Bill Knebel wrote:
> I would like to connect a win95 laptop to my linux box at my home so the
> win95 box can share the internet connection. Is there any way to do this
> without using network cards? If network cards are necessary, how much do
> you think it would cost?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's easy to set up Loze/95 to work as a serial terminal on a Linux box.
All you need is: 1. a free serial port on each box, 2. a null-modem cable
with appropriate connectors, and 3. some sort of terminal emulator for
Windoze. Windoze95 comes with Hyperterm, or you can purchase many different
ones. I kinda am partial to Kermit95, which is fairly inexpensive but
works well. Latest version even has a nice Linux console emulation. It
will also work on a network if you ever connect that way.
It MIGHT be possible (haven't tried this yet, but may some day in the
future now that my wife has W95 on her system) bringing up a PPP
connection from Windoze to Linux on a null modem cable, which would give
you the best of both worlds.
Good luck!
Fred
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