Sagem Fast 800 E3 usb modem and Fedora 8

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 29 17:45:57 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:33 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:43:51 -0700
> Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 
> > laptops typically come with both a wired ethernet and a wireless
> > ethernet.
> 
> That's what her laptop has.
> 
> > If the computer that's working has an ethernet port, it can share the
> > Internet connection via the ethernet port because Internet sharing is
> > built-in to WinXP.
> 
> So if she gets a crossover Ethernet cable she can plug one end into her laptop
> and the other end into the Windows computer, and then set up connection sharing
> on the Windows computer and everything should then work?  The Internet
> connection would come in over the USB cable to the Windows computer and then
> pass through to the laptop?
> 
> This does indeed sound like it will get her where she wants to go.
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yes, that's the idea.

Craig




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