-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:33 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:

Trying to remotely build a new PC with firewall just to support a stupid USB modem isn't a good idea. What I need is something that will connect to the existing, working Ethernet card.

Why not just install a usb card in an open slot in the existing PC?

... The town we're in is _very_ rural. Think middle o' Kansas. More cows than computers.

They still have cows in England? Are they still mad? ;')

her thing. What she has is an older, pre-USB IBM laptop with Windows98 and Mandrake 9.x on it, and a working ethernet card.

An older IBM laptop with no USB? Wow, that's old! I have an older IBM laptop (originally with Windows 98) and it has USB.

Local phone calls in the U.K., including calls to a dial-up ISP, are usually charged at 5¢/minute - one of the ways British Telecom tries to clamp down on the competition.

Lost me on that one. Guees you need to have the context.