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I got my old pc ( 248mb ram , 80 GB ) repaired and the tech people put XP in it. My newer laptop has UBUNTU 10.04 .now I only have one cable and one usb cord .So I connected my modem (with only one CAT5 port and 4 usb ports ) to laptop with CAT5 cable . The internet is working fine .

I also wanted to use net on older pc so I installed the usb drivers for Windows and it worked.

But I got fed up of Windows XP and made a separate partition for FreeBSD which I planned to install. During the install I screwd up sumthing and now freebsd starts with a boot option with a ? mark in place of win xp .If I click on that it gives me a NTLDR missing msg.

I tried connecting CAT5 cable between old and new pc and tried connecting my laptop with USB cable but nothing happend and then I realized the modem doesn`t have a WORKING usb driver for LINUX :( FreeBSD doesn't even detect the LAN cable if I use it for old pc .

So basically I have a old pc that has FreeBSD which I can only start and stare at the blank terminal console but works perfectly otherwise. FreeBSD was supposed to detect the LAN cable. And I have a laptop that has LINUX which only works if I connect it with a CAT5 cable .

So what can I do with my old pc ? Any local server (if possible :( ) or some such thing ? or can u suggest any use ?

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  • Strange. I thought that it would have used the cdc_ether driver.
    – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
    Dec 24, 2010 at 18:50
  • You need a cheap unmanaged "switch" so you can connect all PCs to the modem using cat5....newegg.com/Product/…
    – Moab
    Dec 24, 2010 at 21:21

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It looks like the Windows XP boot loader got mangled by the FreeBSD install. You might be able to fix it by booting the old PC from a WinXP CD or boot floppy. See the Microsoft page Microsoft support page here or this page, or others found by Googling your "NTLDR missing" message.

Once you get that fixed, go find yourself a cheap network switch for making your network connection available to more than one computer. Trying to patch together funky connections through USB or point-to-point network connections can quickly lead to madness.

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