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Jim
"Glen A Stromquist" <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I want to network my home pc's, 2 of them are multi boot with various
> flavours of linux and 2000/xp, and I want to resurrect a couple of old
> 486's and integrate them as well (if possible).
>
> The 486's will be used with windows 3.11 as they are still quite
> adequate for 90% of my kids homework needs and overall quite useable for
> a lot of everday tasks. When I have the time/knowledge I may even load
> an older linux distro on one or two of them and try to use them as dumb
> terminals to access the more powerfull linux boxes.
>
> My main goal is to have a pc available for everyone in the family, and
> being able to print a document from anyone of them to a common printer
> or printers. I know next to nothing about network backbones, but from
> what little I've read I understand that at a minumum I need a hub and
> nic's for all these machines to talk to each other. These seem
> inexpensive enough, but I want to make sure I get one that is compatible
> with the pcs when they are running linux, and am hoping for some
> pointers/suggestions from this NG.
>
> TIA
>
> ps - for sharing an internet connection, I would also need a router,
> correct? (its a dial up connection)
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 22 2003 - 13:06:41 CST
