Anyway of connectin a Ethernet cable to an ordinary modem

kookai9

Is there anyway of connecting a Ethernet cable to an ordinary modem OR is there any kind of adapaters that can make use of any of the other sockets.
I have a 6 year old computer, I would like to install Linux on and Ubuntu recognizes and sets up the internet connectin easily on the Router. I have windows set up after years of work on another 4&half year old Dell which has an Ethernet slot & Linux did work on that ,under a dual boot system but I wanted to write to it & see it from windows so i installed Ext2fsd after some recommandations ,but Ubuntu stopped working after that;I think just the fack I started writng to the other partition messed it up somehow. I never changed anything inside Ubuntu or the other partition.I did a little browseing and saved some mp3 & video files ,thats all , & it just stopped working.;so it would be good if I could use the other computer . Anyone any expertize in this area ??

prowla

Does your (ADSL?) modem just attach directly to the USB of your computer (mine has 4 Ethernet ports too).

If it can only attach to one computer then it is possible to set up that computer to share out its connections to others; Windows has thefeature built in, but I'm not sure if Linux can use it (I'd bet that someone has got it working).

To get a number of computers networked (into a LAN - Local Area Network), you will need an Ethernet hub or switch (they both look very similar and give you the same functionality, but a switch is generally faster).

kookai9

prowla wrote: »

Does your (ADSL?) modem just attach directly to the USB of your computer (mine has 4 Ethernet ports too).

If it can only attach to one computer then it is possible to set up that computer to share out its connections to others; Windows has thefeature built in, but I'm not sure if Linux can use it (I'd bet that someone has got it working).

To get a number of computers networked (into a LAN - Local Area Network), you will need an Ethernet hub or switch (they both look very similar and give you the same functionality, but a switch is generally faster).

It dosnt actually connect via USB .Its a 4 port with an Ethernet wire and phone line wire and also the mains !

fwor

So the 6 year old PC has no Ethernet port, just an old dial-up modem? No adapters for that, but an Ethernet PCI card costs less than £3 from Ebuyer:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118964

Slot that into a spare PCI slot, plug an Ethernet cable into your router, install Ubuntu and it will almost certainly just work without any configuration needed.

Setting it up so that the Ubuntu-based PC supports Windows shares is pretty easy too using Samba - on your more recent PC it will look like any other windows-based machine with file sharing enabled. See section 5 here:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty

kookai9

fwor wrote: »

So the 6 year old PC has no Ethernet port, just an old dial-up modem? No adapters for that, but an Ethernet PCI card costs less than £3 from Ebuyer:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118964

Slot that into a spare PCI slot, plug an Ethernet cable into your router, install Ubuntu and it will almost certainly just work without any configuration needed.

Setting it up so that the Ubuntu-based PC supports Windows shares is pretty easy too using Samba - on your more recent PC it will look like any other windows-based machine with file sharing enabled. See section 5 here:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Jaunty

Sounds good ,especially with a price like that to get Ubuntu working would be great.
Thanks for the help

MothballsWallet

Ethernet ports are known as RJ45, our phone system uses RJ12 and dial-up modems have an RJ11 at the computer end. The best resource for the connections on these that I've found is the Hardware Book.

I have seen RJ45/Ethernet cables used to connect up office phone exchanges and larger server computers set up for phone call handling applications.

I don't think you can connect an Ethernet cable into an ordinary (dial-up) modem without adapters.

I've used Samba on Fedora Core 1 and been able to get access to the Linux machine from Windows and vice versa, although I think I had set something wrong when I installed it as it wasn't 100%.

I think Samba's a very good tool for Linux and X/Window systems for accessing Windows (and other system) shared folders/drives.

elvch01

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Ethernet ports are known as RJ45, our phone system uses RJ12 and dial-up modems have an RJ11 at the computer end. The best resource for the connections on these that I've found is the Hardware Book.

I have seen RJ45/Ethernet cables used to connect up office phone exchanges and larger server computers set up for phone call handling applications.

I don't think you can connect an Ethernet cable into an ordinary (dial-up) modem without adapters.

I've used Samba on Fedora Core 1 and been able to get access to the Linux machine from Windows and vice versa, although I think I had set something wrong when I installed it as it wasn't 100%.

I think Samba's a very good tool for Linux and X/Window systems for accessing Windows (and other system) shared folders/drives.

I think the OP has not got a moden, but a 4-port ethernet router, so teh solution already posted should work using a spare RJ-45 port on the router and a new e/net card in the PC