Networking newbie..

[.Griff.]

I've got a few questions if someone is kind enough to help me?

I've just been given a laptop that I would like to link to my main PC. Rightly or wrongly I assumed I would be able to connect both via ethernet to my Billion 7402VGP router and they would be able to talk to each other that way?

Secondly if that is possible could you use two different operating systems? XP Pro/Vista Ultimate on the main PC and lets say Ubuntu or Suse10.2 on the laptop?

Sorry if these are ridiculous questions but I'm completely new to this.

 

[oddjob62]

I've got a few questions if someone is kind enough to help me?

I've just been given a laptop that I would like to link to my main PC. Rightly or wrongly I assumed I would be able to connect both via ethernet to my Billion 7402VGP router and they would be able to talk to each other that way?

Secondly if that is possible could you use two different operating systems? XP Pro/Vista Ultimate on the main PC and lets say Ubuntu or Suse10.2 on the laptop?

Sorry if these are ridiculous questions but I'm completely new to this.

1. Yes (although i don't believe that is actually a question you wrote )

2. Yes again. Both will be able to share the internet and communicate with each other.