On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet.
The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie installed.
Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple installs in a
day. It intentionally has *NO* internet connectivity. It has a small
partition set aside for preseed.cfg and miscellaneous scripts.
The second machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as source of
preseed and script files.
My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or fine
detail. Most link assume a server with multiple clients. Better
description would be a peer to peer setup. It may be convenient to have
the Windows machine act as a terminal for the Debian machine.
It would help if you provided more information about your network and
computers:
1. Laptop make, model, and version, CPU make and model, RAM size,
HDD/SSD size, and Ethernet speed of Windows laptop.
2. Experimental laptop and key parameters (as above).
3. Internet modem or gateway.
4. Router and/or routing software.
5. Any other devices we should know about.
6. Distances between devices.
1. ThinkPad T43 [https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd012235]
2. ThinkPad R61 [https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd013965]
3. N/A
4. TBD
5. none
6. < 1 ft.
