[Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC TO
OURINTERNET CONNECTION?
Francis Kayiwa
kayiwa at uic.edu
Mon Oct 8 14:38:29 EDT 2007
On Oct 8, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Ted Koppel wrote:
> Is that what is being asked? My reading of the original message was
> that it had nothing to do with the hard drive, but rather an
> attempt to
> see if they could do Ethernet over a modem port.
>
> (And of course, the answer to that is YES - you can have internet
> access
> over a modem port - if you dial up using a 56k modem and PPP
> connection
> to an ISP)
Paragraph three of OP
<verbatim>
I have tried just transferring the files via a floppy or a flash drive
but the pc is so old this isn't working either!!!!
</verbatim>
Fair to guess that this was/is the objective -no?
./fxk
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