Help with basic networking

resonance · 2000-05-25T22:39:55+00:00

I really have no idea about this although I'm sure this is one of the most newbie questions available. I just bought a notebook and want to hook it up to my desktop pc for file transfers. My extremely rudimentary networking knowledge tells me to buy a PCI ethernet card for the desktop and a PCMCIA ethernet card for the laptop and hook them up. But I want a little advice from the Ars'ers who I think really know these stuff. Is this what I'm supposed to do? Are there any things that I need to watch out for while buying the cards? What brands are reliable? Thank you for any answers. Dumbfounded, rez