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arew264

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From: Friendswood, Texas, US

Registered: 2006-07-01

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PPP and Networking

This is somewhat of a crazy question, so almost any response would be appreciated.
I have an Arch box connected to a TV in my house that is far from any ethernet connection. It runs DDR, but I'd like to connect it to my network and do a pacman -Syu to get the new nVidia drivers and pull a few files off of it. I don't want to move it because it's a pain to get it connected to the TV, but I don't have a long enough ethernet cable to hook it directly to the network. I do, however, have a different arch box that is connected to the network, a very long phone cable, and an abundance of old PCI modems that were never used.
Is there any way I could set up a basic PPP connection to get even a slow network connection?

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: PPP and Networking

This is somewhat of a crazy question, so almost any response would be appreciated.
I have an Arch box connected to a TV in my house that is far from any ethernet connection. It runs DDR, but I'd like to connect it to my network and do a pacman -Syu to get the new nVidia drivers and pull a few files off of it. I don't want to move it because it's a pain to get it connected to the TV, but I don't have a long enough ethernet cable to hook it directly to the network. I do, however, have a different arch box that is connected to the network, a very long phone cable, and an abundance of old PCI modems that were never used.
Is there any way I could set up a basic PPP connection to get even a slow network connection?

What about being practical with this and buying a long enough ethernet cable ?
You'll thank yourself later

Or you could download the packages you need with your already-connected-to-the-internet Arch PC and transfer them with USB/CD to the TV box and install off that...

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arew264

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From: Friendswood, Texas, US

Registered: 2006-07-01

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Re: PPP and Networking

What fun would that be?
I know there are better ways to do it, I really just need something to tinker with (while GCC fails to cross compile itself over and over and over).