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Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in
a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? |
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Oops---somehow double posted. My bad. Sorry about that.
Old, senile, forgetful???? All the preceding? |
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"rb" wrote in message ... Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? Yes, it could be that simple, depending on exactly how old the PC is and the OS it may be running. Luck; Ken |
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It's Win2000, so should be OK.
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rb wrote:
Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? Pretty much, very simple. Any cheap NIC will most likely do just fine. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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rb wrote:
Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? I have done that with an old computer and there was no problem. |
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ProfGene wrote:
rb wrote: Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? I have done that with an old computer and there was no problem. Well, I've done that, too, and found I had to have the correct drivers. Depends on what OS is on that old machine. You should find needed drivers on the manufacturer's website. |
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:43:34 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir
wrote: ProfGene wrote: rb wrote: Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? I have done that with an old computer and there was no problem. Well, I've done that, too, and found I had to have the correct drivers. Depends on what OS is on that old machine. You should find needed drivers on the manufacturer's website. The OS may or may not have native driver support built in, but the other factor is that the OS is considering the present dial-up adapter as the primary network interface device (if it had been used for dialup ISP) and may need the internet connection wizard ran to set the NIC as the new adapter bound as the primary TCP/IP device. |
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:58:46 -0400, kony wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:43:34 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir wrote: ProfGene wrote: rb wrote: Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? I have done that with an old computer and there was no problem. Well, I've done that, too, and found I had to have the correct drivers. Depends on what OS is on that old machine. You should find needed drivers on the manufacturer's website. The OS may or may not have native driver support built in, but the other factor is that the OS is considering the present dial-up adapter as the primary network interface device (if it had been used for dialup ISP) and may need the internet connection wizard ran to set the NIC as the new adapter bound as the primary TCP/IP device. THe machine I'm working now (win 98) had both modem and nic. The only issue I had was causing it to discover that, 'hey, there's an IP gateway hooked up to the NIC!' |
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"ProfGene" wrote in message
... Found an old pc in a closet I'd forgotten we had. Thought I'd put to use in a kid's room. A problem, leading to my question is: discovered it has only a dial-up modem, no Ethernet. Is putting Ethernet connection in as simple as putting an Ethernet NIC card in an empty slot? Will that get it to where we can hook it to our hub/router? I have done that with an old computer and there was no problem. I have done this too but there are several gotchas that may occur. If the computer is "really" old, the slots may be ISA only and finding the correct NIC card could be a hassle (fleamarkets). If the cab files are not on the computer no matter which NIC card you choose you will al least have to find these if the native Windows has drivers for said card. There are other network related files that the install process will need that are in the cab file set. Finally, worst case is that the card you pick may be so old that the manufacture has decided to retire the drivers to "bit heaven" and no longer keeps them on their servers. So the final thought is yes, it might be real easy and then again it could turn into a nightmare. later..... |
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