Re: connecting laptop to SMC Barricade

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From: Sam
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:40

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Thanks. I picked up a PCMCIA ethernet card and it has done the job nicely.

"Sooky Grumper" <sookygrumper@fishies_.com> wrote in message
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> Leon. wrote:
> > "Sam" <samkek1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:3fd9b38f$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> >
> >>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.
>
> They're generally 20% more expensive than USB network adapters.
>
> >
> > 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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