I have been running a server with Fedora Core 4 for 6 months now, and I really enjoy linux. Being new to linux, most of the tasks I need to complete have complete tutorials online that I am easily able to follow. But now I want to do something that I can't find tutorials for.

I currently have a couple of Linux machines (Fedora core 4) that are networked together normally and connect to the internet just fine. I also have a Compaq IA-1 with Midori Linux installed (see link at bottom for info). I have been unable to locate drivers to install any wireless USB networking cards, so I want to try to network using the built-in dial-up modem instead.

My question:
Is it possible to connect 2 linux computers using dial-up modem cards? One computer would act as the host, bridging the connection to the rest of the network (and internet).

Any help that you could offer would be appreciated.

Thanks



Link for info about Midori (remove spaces):
http: //linux.boeldt.net/IA-1_Description.asp

I think I understand the question to be that you want to use two modems without a phone system inbetween them to connect two computers together, right?

If this is the case, it is probably possible -- however it is probably faster to get a null modem and do PPP between the two computers using the serial ports. You will almost definitely be able to hold a higher-speed connection with a null modem than you would be able to with real modems.

You will have to set up the system currently attached to your network as a PPP server, and the other as a PPP client. There will probably be some HOW-TOs out there somewhere to give you the hints how to do this; although I suspect that most of the instructions will refer to older distribution versions.