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Dec 19 01:20 UTC 2006

The new in the box Belkin adaptor that fits into a PCI slot and lets you put
in pcmcia cards does NOT take cardbus cards.  It also crashes Win98.  Made
in 2001.  Jim is trying it in DOS then linux, in his computer with no ISA
slots, so we won't need to hook up a laptop computer as gateway (or reprogram
a router to pick up a wireless signal and pass it along).  

Today I stuck an older non-cardbus wired ethernet card into a Win98 laptop
(the card works in linux there) and plugged into a router and ran ipconfig
and could ping the router.  Then I put another wired card into the linux
computer, plugged that into the same (working) router and did udhcpc.  I could
ping between the two computers!  (Also the router).  ping 192.168.1.0 pinged
all three alternately.  The router is 192.168.1.1, the computers 101 (the
first) and 102 (the second).  Then I ran telnetd on the linux computer, was
told I need /bin/login which this linux does not have, switched linuxes, did
it again, and could telnet from Windows to Linux.  I could not log in as root
(I need to edit /etc/securetty to add ttyp0 through 4 to use root on telnet
on four terminals) but I could as user.  Since I have no /home it put me into
/root and I could write and save a file, but not use zgv (which cannot be run
as user due to something I forgot how to fix) or mutt (it made very loud
noises in Windows).   I should fix it to log in as root.

Then I tried busybox httpd (busybox is a small binary that does the basic
parts of many other things) on linux and tried to access 192.168.1.102 with
Opera and got 404 not found.  So I got a bigger (75K) mini_httpd and could
access linux with Win98 via opera, and download files.  But I want to move
files from Win98 to linux and need either a Windows httpd (which may be
included in the 100MB plus of Personal Web Server, or in something even
bigger) or a linux ftpd which might be wu_ftpd which I need to get.

This will let me unload the USB camera to an XP computer then transfer the
files via network cable to the linux computer, which has no USB.
(We have a computer with USB and bad CD-ROM drive, or one with no floppy
drive, and one that won't work with wireless networking in Windows, but the
one without USB does everything properly and is most reliable.  Thanks Scott).

Next project is to put linux on someone else's laptop which may already have
XP on it, maybe using qemu and a 5MB linux image file.