[Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC TOOURINTERNET CONNECTION? -thanks and clarification

[Frances, Melodie]

Thanks very much for all the suggestions - I knew this would be the list
to post to ;)

I should clarify a little more.

The machine does have a usb port - and yes I would potentially have the
same problem with the usb/Ethernet adaptor except that the reason the
flash drive didn't work was because the old machine didn't have the
flash drive driver and I was not successful finding one on the product's
web site. At 15 bucks for the adaptor though it still might be worth a
try.

My newer laptop is an institutional one so I don't want to do too much
there - however, I do have another older pc that does have an Ethernet
connection so perhaps before I get rid of it I should do the transfer
that way. Physically this is a pain - with limited office space and big
old monitors and cpus - which is why I was hoping for a nice small
adaptor solution - also, I will probably want to use the old old pc
again in the future so I wanted an easy SMALL permanent solution. 

As a last resort I could reinstate that old AOL dial up account LOL!!!
(might even be the best solution of all!!!)

Thanks again for all the suggestions - all this work so that I can
transfer an image of my cats doing yoga!!!!!





Melodie Morgan Frances
Head of Cataloging
Graduate Theological Union
mfrances at gtu.edu
510-649-2521

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Francis Kayiwa
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC
TOOURINTERNET CONNECTION?


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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