Hate to rain on your parade, but I don't think you're going to enjoy audacity with 16MB RAM. It was so sluggish when I tried it out on my 128MB computer that I deleted it.
I thought that's what the swap was for..?Well, physical memory is much, much faster than using a harddisk (which is one of the main bottlenecks of today's computers).
Obviously you could try it out first... here's a google link: http://www.nabble.com/Re:-audacity-on-my-computer-p10192048.htmlFirst, check your modem (DSL side) as it needs to have a Linux driver.. Is it recognized automatically? Then check the boot messages for the tty (usually ttyS somenumber)..
Then read the ppp-howto from tldp.org, it explains how to set up a ppp connection with M$ computers.. The Win machine is the host/server, then you just enable Internet Connection Sharing from your Win machine to the modem, set the Win machine's ip address as your gateway in DSL (have a static ip, boot with "nodhcp") and also your nameserver, then your net connection should work....
About audacity: it's also available for M$... I've used it with 48mb of ram in Linux (128mb swap) and it works fine, even when I've got three instances running (one had a mp3 from where I cut-pasted some parts, one was for recording from my mic which I also cut-pasted to the third one, which eventually became a great, new mp3-ringtone for my celly ;)......)I set up something in my Network Connections on the windows computer, and it's called "Incoming Connections", and under it it says "No clients connected". Is that what you were talkin' about?
Are you running XP or 98? In XP in Network connections on the left there's "set up a home network" or something, click it.. When it asks, the Win machine is the one through all others connect to the net, ethernet port is the connection to be shared and modem is the connection where your other comp is...
To check the modem just open System Stats and Boot messages from there.. See anything related to modems?Next Page...
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