On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:22:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > With the help coming from the present mailing list, I managed to connect > my laptop with my old desktop PC via a cross ethernet cable, and to make > them communicate via ping and transfer files using rsync. (...) Check that the computers you are connecting have properly configured the ethernet adapter. Run "/sbin/ifconfig" command in both. Greetings, -- Camaleón