Paralell Cable for Internet

[TheQuirk]

I searched google and couldn't find an instructions on how to share an internet connection between a computer running linux and a laptop runing windows 95 using a parallel cable (the laptop doesn't have a modem or a NIC, or even a cdrom. It's very old).

Does anyone have any idea on how I should do this?

[voidmain]

I would suggest getting a Linksys PCMCIA network card and if you want your laptop to be able to go through the Linux box and beyond use look for the IPMASQ howto.  Maybe someone else knows of a way to use the Parallel port for this but I've never tried.  You should certainly be able to use the serial port for this using "pppd" on the Linux side but it would be much slower than using a parallel port.  I'll keep my eye open and see what I can come up with.

[TheQuirk]

well, the laptop is only temporarly here. all I really want to do is read text files off of the internet and program on it, so a serial link owuld probably be okay. Any ideas on what to do on the windows95 side?

edit: I was reading it before I submited this thread. I probably didn't get far enough to understand how to do this little trick =\

[ August 04, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

[voidmain]

Here are several links:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=linux+windows+direct+cable+connect