Hello everyone!! OK...this may sound strange, but I found a very good PC (look at the specs...) in the street in front of a neighbor's house...:P I put everything in (hard drive, CD-ROM, floppies, OS, etc...), but there's one thing I don't have in my hardware collection: a network adapter...:( But it does have a dial-up modem...my question is, is there any way to connect that PC to another PC that does have a network adapter?? I want to connect them togehter with phone cables so I can have Internet on all of them...:P Here's a picture of what I want to do: www.masterleito.ath.cx/pics/netconfig.jpg (the site isnt open all day...) Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

The usual way is to pick up a Null Modem Cable at $6.00 and connect across your serial COM ports. Then you have what's called a direct computer connection. I suppose it's possible. You'd connect the two modems across their RJ11 serial ports and send direct modem commands across the line. See here: http://www.jagshouse.com/modem.html for someone who's actually done it.

For $10 you can buy a network adapter and skip all of the other stuff. www.directron.com has two models for less than $10.

Orion; Well...the PC without the NIC is Win98, but the PC with the NIC is WinXP and doesnt have the Direct Cable Connection thing, not even in Add/Remove Windows components...:( Don Arnett; Yeah, they're very cheap...:P But I just want 2 learn more...:P Thanx both of u!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

:P So how did u get it working?? :P I'm gonna get a NIC, but I just wanna know how 2 do it...:P Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

Open up your Help and Support Center in XP and type Direct Cable Connection. Click Make a direct network connection using a DirectParallel cable It should tell you everything you need to know. Not sure if it is compatible with 98 though. ASUS A7V8X AMD XP 2700+ 2.17ghz 768mb ddr 2700 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb DVD R/RW

Nope, didnt work...:( Thanx anyways!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx