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Re: connecting laptop to SMC Barricade

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From: Leon.
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:17
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"Sam" <samkek1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a SMC Barricade SMC7004ABR broadband router that works perfectly
with
> my PCs.
>
> I am wondering if there is any way to connect this to my laptop that does
> not have a network card. It has USB and COM ports.

You can get PCMCIA ethernet cards if you dont want to do the USB thing.

COM ports cant handle ethernet.  There were parallel port ethernet devices -
only useful for 10mhz ethernet, and  quite slow at it ...
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