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hi,
Im trying to hook my laptop to an old win 3.11 PC, my problem is the old pc uses a BNC 10base-T and my laptop is RJ45. Is it possible to connect these together? i.e. is there such a thing as RJ45 to BNC? any help would be appreciated.thanks for reading
Thanks for the reply Jhunt, will look into that.
Is it possible to get network cards suitable for laptops that would allow for networking to these old systems? Im thinking a pcmcia netwok card that will allow connection to the BNC standard on the old win 3.11 PC (my laptop is a modern type, thinkpad T30, with internal RJ45 on XP pro)thanks again.
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I've never actually seen one, but that doesn't mean they don't exist!
For moving data only, you can use Laplink and a serial cable
http://www.laplink.com/products/llgold115/overview.asp
Or buy an external drive enclosure for 2.5" disks and put the one from your old laptop in it (they are reletively cheap)
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again, thanks for the fast response, never actually considered laplink, will invetigate that!
well you've given me plenty to check out.
thanks for the help!-Gordon
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Intel made isa combo boards that did rj45 and bnc. Replace the card in the WfW machine would be my suggestion.
Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search
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That would be mine too, and I even have an old ISA 3com combo NIC or two kicking around in a box somewhere. You should be able to find one just like that dirt cheap. Not that you need a combo card (you won't be using the BNC connector after all). Just buy an ISA NIC with an RJ-45 and that will do.
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this is where the plot thickens!
The NIC on the old WFW PC does have an RJ45 socket as well as a BNC, this old machine is part of a 10Base-T (BNC) network (an old university network), now in order to access the RJ45 port on the NIC I need to disconnect from the 10Base-T (BNC) and insert my RJ45 then reboot the PC for the NIC to autodetect the RJ45 (I cannot get the RJ45 and 10Base-T working together? which would be great otherwise)my other problem is I cannot reboot the old PC as it controls a lamp which must stay active (this is part of a university project and rebooting gives me tons of headaches when restarting the lamp)hence the auto detect function never see's my RJ45 so I must therefore try and connect my laptop with the BNC setup (hope this makes sense!).
My ultimate goal is to gather data from the old machine, the data is ~15-20mb, which until now I need to use floppies to take home. If I can somehow connect to this PC and copy the data to my laptop I can ditch the floppies altogther and no more PKZIP etc!!
Any suggestions appreciated,Thanks again,
Gordon
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haha, you must be using a really old version of simulink or something.
Seriously, do an ebay for 'hub bnc' and you should see a few for around $5, which is the cheapest option.
Second option is to buy a second hand PC for, say, $1 that you can put a couple of cards in.
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Why not just access the machine over its existing network connection???
WILL POST FOR FOOD.
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I cant as my laptop is RJ45 and the existing network is all BNC, these are old old PC's!
Im leaning to the suggestion of a hub with both ports on it, looks like there cheap enough on ebay.
thanks for the feedback so far, really really appreciate it!!!!-Gordon
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Might consider a laplink cable and use intrlnk/intrsrv and direct serial connection. That cable would be much less that a media converter.
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Oh, forgot. You could use hyperterm on each and a serial cable (I think null modem) and transfer via that. A bit slow.
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