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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

I think you've gone about this fundamentally wrong. It sounds like this 
router you've plugged into runs a dhcp server. That's what

> info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400

means to me, anyway. That means you don't need to ifconfig anything--udhcp 
is doing that for you. I think you took an unecessary step by doing

> then ifconfig eth0
> 192.168.1.1

Adding that address before eth0 gets assigned an address by the router 
(which is 192,168,1,46, btw) is only going to foul things up. Reboot, run 
the pcmcia start script, then run udhcpc. That's it. Don't ifconfig 
anything. Then, you should be able to run httpd from whatever directory 
and, having made note of the address the router assigned you (like "info, 
Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400"), try accessing that 
address from the XP machine. The other way to try this is to use the samba 
client package Steven put together. You can access the XP's filesystem 
that way if you know its IP address. I tested this package and succeeded 
transferring to and from an XP machine, so it will work. You'll have to 
search the archives for particulars though. I posted all my testing info 
there, but don't remember much of it off the top of my head. You should be 
able to find fairly comprehensive directions, if you want to go that route 
rather than the httpd route.

> Ping 192.168.1.46 works, as does pinging my own computer.

You're pinging yourself.

> I have not been able to use IE to access 192.168.1.1 - it got me to some
> other website.

That's probably the router's admin panel. Usually you can admin these 
firewall/routers via a web interface. They run a little webserver you have 
to log into using your web browser to do admin stuff.

> To access the DSL line I only needed to plug in the cable between my
> laptop and the ethernet hub, /etc/pcmcia/start, ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
> (or udhcpc might have been enough), and I was then on the network just as
> if I had dialed.
> > > For the ethernet connection to the DSL modem, we would >use the static
> > > IP number of this computer, right?  Is there also some way to do

Most networks run a dhcp server, so forget in general about ifconfig'ing. 
Always try running udhcpc first. If that doesn't get you an address 
assigned from a dhcp server on the network, then try ifconfig'ing.

James