Dial-Up access in Linux via a Windows XP laptop with a WinModem installed? Possible??

Xel'naga666 · 09-21-2006, 03:34 PM

Dial-Up access in Linux via a Windows XP laptop with a WinModem installed? Possible??.

Here is a rough diagram of the setup I wish to setup.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1416/imagehy7.gif

I have been using Linux for far too long without internet access and have been using the windows laptop to do so. Is it possible to access the internet via this laptop? By using the crossover cable as shown in the pic?

My guess is to make the XP machine "host" the connection and then get Linux to access it over the ethnet crossover cable. But I have absolutly no idea how to do so...

Please please help me!! I will change to another distro if this is nessesary.. I have a nice pile of em next to me

I hope to be able to do this in a cost free manner.

PS, I have very little Linux networking experience. So I may be a little slow there...

basileus · 09-22-2006, 05:58 AM

I haven't used WinXP (or Windows in general) for several years, except occasionally. Anyway I'm almost certain that it can be done. In fact, all you probably have to do is

1) Enable Internet Connection sharing in WinXP (there's probably some wizard to do it)

2) Setup the network cards on both WinXP and Slackware with settings like this:

WinXP (static settings, no dhcp)
- IP address: 192.168.0.1
- Netmask: 255.255.255.0
- Broadcast: 192.168.0.255 (if there is a field like this)

I don't know how these settings are applied to Slack, but in Debian you have a file /etc/network/interfaces in which you in this case should put

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
broadcast 192.168.0.255 (I don't think actually need this, use it if it doesn't work otherwise)

3= Restart eth0 on slack, probably with

ifdown eth0
ifup eth0

Just make sure that eth0 does NOT use DHCP, otherwise it will not work.

Xel'naga666 · 09-22-2006, 11:46 AM

Thanks for the great reply. I'll give it a shot and get back to you.

Xel'naga666 · 09-22-2006, 01:08 PM

Yay!! Thanks for the help, it worked. Finally im using the net in linux now. Updates here I come.

Many many thanks again.

Kahless · 09-29-2006, 11:50 PM

just fyi, windows xp connection sharing can hand out dhcp addresses, but if you have a working setup there is no need to change it.

Xel'naga666 · 09-30-2006, 03:16 PM

Cheers for the reply anyway. I should have also put up the full solution here.

I basically edited the networking detials as said above in "basileus"'s post in this file "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf"

Code:

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]="192.168.0.10"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

# Config information for eth1:
IPADDR[1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DHCP[1]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""

# Config information for eth2:
IPADDR[2]=""
NETMASK[2]=""
USE_DHCP[2]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[2]=""

# Config information for eth3:
IPADDR[3]=""
NETMASK[3]=""
USE_DHCP[3]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[3]=""

# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

So heres how you do it in Slackware if anyone else out there needs this too. Thanks everyone!! Dial-Up may be slow, but it's better than nothing