setting up a serial network for my old laptops

[cj]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/17/2007 09:29 PM, debiani386 wrote:
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>> i use a serial cable because my old 486 laptop does not come with a NIC.
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>> i looked for a docking station for my laptop, but the docking station 
>> didnt have a NIC
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>> I looked for a NIC that would be compatible with it, but those are 
>> extremely hard to come across (mainly because my PCMCIA is very old 
>> (type I i believe) and i dont know if it even works)
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>> and no vendors around here have crossover parallel, so i chose serial.
>>
>> i know i couldve gone to ebay and got me a crossover parallel, but i 
>> figured that i wouldnt have to wait so long for the cable to come in if 
>> i were to purchase from a local vendor
>>
>> --cj
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> Does it have a usb port? If so I solved this problem on my old A21
> Thinkpad by buying an Airlink 101 USB 2.0 Ethernet adapter. The laptop
> doesn't have a usb 2.0, it's a 1.1, but the adapter works like a champ.
> Just plug it in and go.
> (http://www.airlink101.com/products/asohousb.html) Picked it up at the
> local Fry's electronics store for about $13. Also added a docking
> station that I bought at the local computer surplus junk store for $10
> and set it up as a desktop (the screen is broken). I'm looking a buying
> a few more simply to have around - when I couldn't get the built-in
> ethernet port on my Presario 5670 w/Ubuntu (works find in Windoze), I
> used the Airlink 101 until I found an old nic that would work.
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it would sure be nice if it did.
All it has is:
1mb Western Digital VGA card
1 ECP/EPP parallel port
1 PS/2 port
Docking port
1 Serial port
2 PCMCIA Type 1 ports

Note: my system is an old 486DX2 (50mhz), 12mb ram, running windows95 
(even if it did have a usb port, wouldnt be able to hook it up 
wirelessly anyways)

--cj