acidosmosis
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I have two PC's. One is WinXP and one is Win2k. They both are networked together with ICS to share my DSL connection. The DSL modem is hooked up to my primary (winxp) machine. I dual boot WinXP and Red Hat Linux on the primary WinXP machine.
The question I have is I want to move my DSL modem over to my Win2K machine because Linux doesn't support USB DSL modems very easily. So, what I was thinking I could do instead of buying a DSL router (which would be much easier to setup in Linux) is to just move the Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem over to the Win2K machine and then network the Win2K machine with the Red Hat Linux/WinXP machine.
The objective of this is to be able to boot into WinXP *or* Linux on my primary machine and be able to access the Internet over the network. The Win2K machine would be the DSL hosting machine.
I'm sure I could just network Red Hat with the Win2K machine and then setup some kind of Internet Connection Sharing (whatever you would call this feature in Linux or whatever similiar feature may work).
I have been studying Linux on and off. I also had a class for Linux in college, but I just recently started really playing with it enough to get things installed and some things working. At the moment I have a dialup connection setup in Linux so that I can chat in IRC/AIM and browse the web and read webpages on Linux and try different things while I'm in Linux instead of having to print out the information then boot into Linux which is a LARGE headache. The Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem is a bit hard to setup especially for a beginning Linux user.
Any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Primary PC: Windows XP/Linux
Secondary PC: Windows 2000
Edit: Edited for readability ;-)
The question I have is I want to move my DSL modem over to my Win2K machine because Linux doesn't support USB DSL modems very easily. So, what I was thinking I could do instead of buying a DSL router (which would be much easier to setup in Linux) is to just move the Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem over to the Win2K machine and then network the Win2K machine with the Red Hat Linux/WinXP machine.
The objective of this is to be able to boot into WinXP *or* Linux on my primary machine and be able to access the Internet over the network. The Win2K machine would be the DSL hosting machine.
I'm sure I could just network Red Hat with the Win2K machine and then setup some kind of Internet Connection Sharing (whatever you would call this feature in Linux or whatever similiar feature may work).
I have been studying Linux on and off. I also had a class for Linux in college, but I just recently started really playing with it enough to get things installed and some things working. At the moment I have a dialup connection setup in Linux so that I can chat in IRC/AIM and browse the web and read webpages on Linux and try different things while I'm in Linux instead of having to print out the information then boot into Linux which is a LARGE headache. The Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem is a bit hard to setup especially for a beginning Linux user.
Any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Primary PC: Windows XP/Linux
Secondary PC: Windows 2000
Edit: Edited for readability ;-)