[svlug] Laptop network card ?

[Nick Moffitt]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Seth David Schoen wrote:

> Duncan MacKinnon writes:
> 
> > If you intend to use it without a hub you will need to wire an
> > adapter to make the connection wire into a hub. I have done this
> > using two keystones and a bit of Cat 5 cable.
> 
> That's not actually a hub, since it's not an Ethernet repeater.  But
> it will look like a hub, as far as any Ethernet devices plugged into
> it can tell.

	It's called a "gimpnet hub" because it is so gimpy.  I
personally use GimpNet on my systems at home.  It's a nice cheap way
to network two machines.

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