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Hi Frank,

You mention that you’re using WiFi with the laptop, to connect to the internet. To me, this sounds like you’ve already in place a router or switch, connected to the “outside world” that is capable of transmitting via WiFi standards. It is also possible, but not always, that that router / switch is able to have more than one network connected device attached via Cat5(e) cable.

If you do have a router “in the middle”, you should not need ICS or the Proxy program to connect more than one PC to the internet. If however your laptop is the first in line connection to the outside world, than yes, you’d have to use one of these programs (or the like).

Once again, try the Proxy program from AnalogX.com. I used this to do just what the poster asked, a number of years ago.

Give Proxy, from AnalogX, a try. I used this program years ago with an AOL dial-up account, and a wired home network.

It’s been a while, so the details are sketchy for me as I can’t access the website I’ve linked (corporate web filtering policy). If I remember correctly, you simply install this program on the computer with the dial-up account, and then set the web browser proxy settings on your other computer(s) to use the dial-up computer as the proxy server.

It shouldn’t matter whether you’re using a wired or wireless network. They only network I know it doesn’t work for is a SneakerNet

…although Linux will see the Windows folders and files just fine, Windows will not be able to read the Linux filesystem if you used ext3 or ext4 to format your drive.

Although true when using a Windows OS to read a local disk, this statement is untrue for accessing a network location, as would be the case of the original question.

When made available for network access, the filesystem used on the drive only needs to be understood by the host OS. The remote OS handles the network location.

It all depends on the type of share you make available. For example, a Samba share for using Microsoft Windows as the remote system.

Hi Bob,

I can’t speak to the amount of support the Windows Secrets team will devote to the items you’ve mentioned, however those of us in the Lounge will not turn away a question that we (or someone else) can answer.

By all means, if you have a question regarding a BlackBerry, iPhone, HTC Dream, etc…. please post away. Somebody is bound to have a suggested solution, or at the very least, provide you with a pre-populated search-engine search.

You might be able to find your answers at this Ubuntu.com “Community” page.

For the most part, Ubuntu, and the other distributions based upon it, will setup nicely with your current hardware. There are still some items that will cause you headaches, but if you’re willing to invest a bit of time and effort, you’ll learn so much more.

Wrong terminology a Pocket Book running Windows

I wondered if that was the case

Too many similar names, for different items. Sometimes, drastically so!

As an experiment I want to try the above OS on an old Pocket PC I have but want to run it from the iso file but don’t particularly want to burn it to CD but prefereably from a flash drive.

Can you suggest any CD emulator software that I could use to try and get the iso file to run…or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

Hi Jezza,

You could try the steps provided on this Ubuntu.com page.

I don’t know if the Pocket PC will run the software, but it’s worth giving it a shot.

If you have any available PCI or ISA slots (PC age dependant of course), you might be able to find an expansion card to enable your USB needs again.

It’s a cheaper option than buying a new PC, and will show your lads the importance of never admitting defeat .

I was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada a couple of weeks ago. The computer provided by the hotel, in my room, was setup running a Windows Vista OS, using the French Canadian language. When browsing to any of my regular websites, including Google.com, or Google.ca, the page presented was written in French-Canadian.

Here’s the funny part. When using my personal notebook on the hotel’s WiFi service, I visited the same websites, and everything was in the usual US English (very few, if any sites have I been able to find a Canadian English option).

Luckily for me, I was able to navigate the French Canadian sites well enough to get what I needed.

I don’t know if you’ve made any headway on this problem yet, however I thought I’d suggest one other thing to look at.

When I purchased my smartphone with WiFi ability, I needed to ensure the router was configured to accept a connection from the MAC address of the smartphone. I had previously set the router to only allow known MAC addresses.

On most of the WiFi routers I’ve seen, you can allow or deny by known MAC address if you so desire, or leave it open to all MAC addresses.

Depending upon the model you purchased, some drives have various options for connection to your PC / network.

You might be lucky, and have an ethernet port on the back of the device. In this case, all you would need is an available port on your switch, and a way to assign an IP address to the drive.

What is the specific chipset for your WiFi interface? There are various chipsets out there, and unfortunately, some do not work easily (if at all) in the Linux world.

For the distributions that you did get to run, do they connect via ethernet cabling?

On WindowsXP computers, I’ve used ISO Recorder to burn the images. I’ve yet to have a problem.

If you still have problems with this, perhaps having a copy of Ubuntu shipped to you would suffice? This service will ship you a copy of Ubuntu at no cost.

Thanks Hans – I will check this out in the morning at the office.