[wellylug] Internet sharing between XP and Ubuntu 11.04

[Tim McNamara]

I'm not sure too much about the network configuration, however Ubuntu
is able to do dial up just fine. See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto



On 13 January 2012 15:14, Glenn Morrissey
<glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> Ive just installed Ubuntu 11.04 to a partition on my Rather dated Asus
> X50RL laptop. It installed great and works really well, but I do have
> a few issues with the whole thing.
> I have to use the local Library for Internet access by day, and to be
> fair, Ubuntu is great, detects the wireless network straight away and
> connects no problems. Cant install packages though, I think the
> library people have blocked that connection.
>
> My main problem is thus: I really need to connect with it at home, but
> I only have an internal 56K modem, and discovered that Ubuntu doesn't
> do dial up. I have a Acer desktop thats running XP, and have a switch
> to connect the two machines, which I use when the Notebook is booted
> under Vista.
>
> I tried to get the machines to communicate with my nonexistent
> networking knowledge, and they do ping each other, but no more. I need
> to know what I need to configure on each machine to make it happen,
> surely it must be possible. I've tried with the Ubuntu documentation
> and others about modifying certain files but I always strike problems,
> and really I just don't know what I am doing.
>
> Someone please help.
>
> Glenn.
>
>
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