The Internet is wunnerful...

[alexpgp]

Drew went and ordered DSL and I agreed to fund half of it if we can figure a way to share the service. Last night, his attempt to install a plain-vanilla NIC on his new Dell didn't work out so well, so I'm trying - having finished a first pass through the translation - to set up Galina's old Toshiba laptop with a new network card so we can use it, sorry old piece of Pentium-equipped, low-power consumption hardware that it is, as our link to the DSL world out there.

Installation goes well until - you guessed it - I get a message saying that a needed file on the Windows 98 2nd edition CD is missing, and would I, please, insert the Windows 98 2nd edition CD?

Yeah, that's right.

This, while showing me that the install procedure appears to have been wandering about somewhere on the machine's hard drive, which ought to be easily distinguishable from a CD, I would imagine.

But I'm not really a technical person.

The file I needed was pc100v2.sys and it was nowhere to be found on the Windows CD. I hit Google with just the name of the missing file and was immediately brought to a site (computergripes.com, which I bookmarked) that presented me with a well-written item that, after venting a bit of spleen in Microsoft's direction, revealed to me that the needed file was on the manufacturer's disk in the A: drive.

Installation complete.

* * *I finished the translation a little over an hour ago and am taking a short break to see if I can install the DSL, as well as to cool down and get a little "distance" from the work, as I have now to take the resulting 20,000 or so words and review them for grammar, spelling, completeness, etc.

For a guy who barely eked out 2800 words for all of yesterday, I screamed through a final few pages that weighed in with as many words in just under 4 hours.

We be SMO-kin'!

Cheers...

Comments

[bsgi.livejournal.com]

get a router designed to work with dsl then you can share to heart's content.


DSL -> DSL modem -> router -> port 1 -> computer a
----------------------------> port 2 -> computer b
----------------------------> port 3 -> computer c, etc.
----------------------------> port 4 -> server

check with provider...they should be able to tell you what you need specifically

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

A friend has DSL at his office and shares it with 4 computers. He has a DSL modem connected to a 4 port Linksys DSL Router, each port feeding one computer. No sweat. He can also use the network to share the printers.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I should add that one of the computers is so old, slow and has so little memory that it's still running W95, but it took an old 3Com 3C509 NIC with no problem. Another machine is a Vaio.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check it out, as it may be easier to implement. Right now, though, I'm intent on turning the Toshiba into a router to one machine running Linux, which in turn masquerades for all of the machines "behind" it.

The icky part is having to use four NICs (one from DSL to Toshiba, one from Toshiba to Linux box, and then one on the Linux box to receive from Toshiba, and a fourth to go out to the local network.

OTOH, lemme see what a LinkSys DSL router might cost... :^)

Cheers...

Re:

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you're making it overly complicated ;)

[fxflynn.livejournal.com]

getting a dsl router is comparatively inexpensive here so it would be probably be more so in the states plus you will have a better selection.

or you can keep the linux box and use it as firewall after the dsl modem then get a normal hub/switch (which would be cheaper than router). a friend of mine has his setup as follows.

net -> linux (firewall, proxy, nat) -> 4 port switch --> 2 other computer + all-in-one printer-scanner-fax.

granted his net connection is 128k isdn but you understand.