From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 21:13:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E23737B406 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-007dcwashP153.dialsprint.net [63.178.91.89]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f944DkP09099; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C612050BAA; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:14:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:14:32 -0400 From: parv To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: f-q Subject: Re: any device to share one dial up connection among old fashioned modems? Message-ID: <20011004001432.A23556@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Emmerton , f-q References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:14:19AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Oct 03 09:14 -0400, sent by Matthew Emmerton > > Seeing as you can get cheap but half-decent NICs for under $10, why is > this a big issue? Stick a NIC in both systems,... i rather not open (my father's) computer to install a NIC as, truth be told, i am apprehensive of getting jumper settings, if any, wrong and frying (other) things in the process. i haven't looked closely inside the (some aptiva) minitower case... "what i don't know, i fear". that, or, "little knowledge is a dangerous thing". -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message