hey, i don't have internet in my apartment because i'm too cheap to buy a $200 wireless card right now, so i was wondering if there is a way to link my friend's hp up to my ibook with an ethernet cord or something. that way i can get the specials from here and just transfer them to my computer.
is it possible? i thought about doing a zip drive thing cause i have one of those, but the formats are different.
ideas?

Re: linking a pc to a mac

The short answer is yes. I'm not very familiar with Macs but you should be able to throw an address on the ethernet adapters of both devices and use an x-over cable to do it. Hopefully a mac expert can chime in.

Re: linking a pc to a mac

i have done it few years ago, as i can remember, all you need is a cross over lan cable, connect the two computers, and add pc on your imac, after that i know there has to be an option for shared connection on mac, and set the I-net connection on PC to shared.

the oher way round you dont even have to do anything, just click connect, blessed windows, hehe

try here, maybe [url]http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/f-14-p-8.html[/url]

Re: linking a pc to a mac

If you mean $200 for a airport card then dont bother, get yourself a D-Link DWL-G122 usb wifi card, it comes with OS X drivers (make sure you download the rev4 drivers from d-link as they sort out a lot of issues found in previous versions) infact you can use the rev 4 drivers from d-link on any prism 2.5 chipset usb wifi dongle. Ralink also have OS X drivers for their wifi chipsets. so if you can be bothered to do a bit of research you should be able to get a cheap card & get up & running

btw, the D-Link dongle is 802.11b only, whereas the Ralink based ones do .11g