He said it was a laptop. It would have to be a USB PCMCIA card. The inclusion of the phone call cost is that if he has to call her and walk her thru some long procedure or fix, it can get expensive quick. He probably wants a drop in solution. He should know from his own time over there whether or not their phone lines are wired the same. We use 2-wire into a RJ-11 here, do they use some funky plug requiring an adapter? Is their ethernet wired to a different standard and if so, will it still work w/ US equip.? IEEE is supposed to be an international standards body, but they still use different electrical voltages than us, so anything is possible.
Brian Kelsay
"Brian Densmore" <> 01/25/05 10:18AM >>>
Why not just install a USB card in an open slot in the existing PC?
her thing. What she has is an older, pre-USB IBM laptop with Windows98 and Mandrake 9.x on it, and a working ethernet card.
An older IBM laptop with no USB? Wow, that's old! I have an older IBM laptop (originally with Windows 98) and it has USB.
Local phone calls in the U.K., including calls to a dial-up ISP, are usually charged at 5¢/minute - one of the ways British Telecom tries to clamp down on the competition.
Lost me on that one. Guess you need to have the context.
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:14 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
He said it was a laptop. It would have to be a USB PCMCIA card.
Which we tried. No luck, Win98 or Mandrake.
The inclusion of the phone call cost ...
That's just an indication of how backward and difficult things can be over there; we ended up dropping our dial-up ISP because they messed up the billing.
We have long distance that's 9¢/minute total if I do need to talk with her, but she's still not into doing a full hardware build from scrap.
Which is all a very unnecessary work-around for just getting an ethernet DSL modem
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