Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 12, 2003 08:09 AM
If you have a serial cable laying around, you can pick up a null-modem adapter for about $3 at a place like radio shack. if you can get the laptop booted from a floppy with a ppp client available, you can use ppp to connect to your network through the serial port. however, your transfer rate will only be about 112kb/s or so.
note: i have used ppp over a null-modem/serial-cable setup for networking, but i have no idea if you can find/make a bootable linux floppy that has a ppp client on it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 12, 2003 08:09 AMnote: i have used ppp over a null-modem/serial-cable setup for networking, but i have no idea if you can find/make a bootable linux floppy that has a ppp client on it.
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