To all in this list:
Today, I was playing with serial cable connection my HP-CX
paltop to PC, and I failed to setup serial connection
between COMTOOL as terminal on DOS (HP-CX) side and MINICOM
on Linux side (/dev/modem linking to /dev/ttyS1, where laplink
is connected...)
Is it possible to setup PPP connection over standard HP-CX(LX)
laplink cable ? I am not sure if I don't need special
"crossed" cable, ie. I am not sure if null-modem cable and
laplink cables are the same, or not.
I finaly succeeded in configuring PPP connection from my
home to Arachne Labs office over Siemens Gigaset M101 wireless
serial-cable extender (cca 0.5 km distance, maybe even more...).
(Well, this is Linux-to-Linux link, Arachne (EPPD or LSPPP)
is not using directly the serial cable extender, but rather
ethernet card, and there is IP masquerading configured on
my local Linux workstation. This is why I won't write any
"Siemens gigaset howto" for Arachne - it behaves really just
like piece of serial cable...)
Now I would like to start experimenting with getting online
with stripped down version of Arachne running on HP-CX palmtop
(1 MB RAM, XT-compatible, 8 Mhz, CGA card...), either
against PPP server running on my Linux, or using GSM cell
phone (here in .cz, there are "free" ISPs offering PPP
connection over GSM - "free" means, that you pay "only"
per-minute rate for being online with cell phone, which is
same as when you are just talking...).
So far, I haven't been able even to see what I am typing
in COMTOOL running on HP-CX, configured to 9600 bps, in
MINICOM in Linux, configured also to 9600 bps. So it is really
not yet time starting to play with any PPP link, if I cannot
see not even plain characters in terminal...
Any idea ?
