Driver Station to Dashboard Laptop connection

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by slavik262

Why on earth would they forbid us from using ethernet connections?

There was only one Ethernet connection on the field last year too. The difference is that the DS is now a commodity and not a custom device... this means you don't get to have 2 Ethernet ports built in (whens the last time you saw any laptop with more than one). My guess is they don't want to change the field side of things to double the number of Ethernet connections.

Originally Posted by slavik262

At any rate, I've discovered some USB-to-USB network cables. Does anybody know of one that's Vista compatible? A lot of the ones I see are compatible up to XP only.

If you search "USB Ethernet adapter" on your favorite search engine you'll come up with plenty of options that support your favorite OS (though XP on the classmate is all that matters) for $20 to $30. The rule simply says you can only use USB on the classmate... it doesn't matter how you connect to your dashboard computer.