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sindi keesan wrote:
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> > Serial terminal (via a DOS or Linux term program).
>
> We did this with telnet 

No, this is quite different from telnet.  The second
computer is hooked directly into the getty (via the
serial port).  It is not TCP/IP.  It runs a DOS 
terminal program, like telix or commo.

> how does Xterminal work and did you try it in BL?

I use it several times a week.  BL3 on a 486 laptop with 
12mb RAM gets icewm from the desktop (via ethernet) and 
runs Firefox (etc.) at excellent speed.

> Is a 100MHz laptop powerful enough (we have a PCMCIA 
> wireless card)?

As I said above, if the gateway computer is not the
most powerful system, you probably want to make it
an IP-masking firewall.
 
> How do we set up IP-masking firewall?

I suggest you start with BL1.  It was designed for
this purpose (see netsetup in BL1).  Floppy version
works fine -- insmod, ifconfig, route, ipfwadm.
Then ppp-on and you will be able to share that
connection with the rest of the TCP/IP network.

> I presume crossover network cable from the wireless-
> connected computer to the other computer (or use a 
> hub if several).

Not just ethernet.  Any TCP/IP network can be used
(PLIP, SLIP, whatever).

> If we network with a Windows laptop for which we have 
> the wireless card driver, can we run a linux browser?  
 
The Windows laptop will simply be routing the TCP/IP 
traffic.  It does not care which operating system was
used to generate the traffic.

> If so, how?

I can't tell you how to configure Windows. But once 
the Windows computer is functioning as a TCP/IP 
gateway (eg 192.168.1.1), you do this on your Linux 
computer:
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route add default gw 192.168.1.1
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Cheers,
Steven