On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 17:08, grantrocket2 <mars_rover@rocketma
> I am running mint 8 on a old computer. I put a wireless network card in it in the hopes that
> mint would be able to take the internet from my sprint mobil broadband card and broadcast
> it so more than one computer can be online. Only thing is, i can't get it to work. The
> wireless card works, and the sprint card works and connects to the internet. How can i get
> the internet to be shared over the network. I also wish to share the hardrive as a network
> drive. I will be connecting windows laptops and my linux laptop as well. Thanks in advance.
Need more info. How do you know your wireless card works? Can it
ping and connect to other machines on your network? Is the problem
only that you can't get out onto the internet? What's your network
setup? Are you using an off the shell router? Are you using a system
as a firewall/router? Are you using a NAT setup? There are quite a
few variables to "Why doesn't my computer get on the internet?"
As for the other thing... do some research in configuring NFS and
Samba. NFS is the *nix protocol for remote mounting filesystems.
Samba is the Linux version of the Windows protocol and lets your
Windows systems mount disks on a Linux machine, as well as doing
printer sharing and so forth.
So look those up, see how far you get, and come for help when/if you
get stuck :-)
Cheers
Jeff
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