Hi,
Do you really means using a parallel port to be configured like a network
card?
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Izatt, Wayne wrote:
>
> > I have an ancient laptop running kernel 1.2.13 which I'd like to network
> > (occaisionally) via its serial port to my desktop 2.0.36 machine. There is
> > no possibility of installing a NIC on the laptop. The desktop box will, in a
> > few days time, have a cable connection to the net, and I plan to create a
> > small IP-masq'ed net at home with one or two other machines.
> >
> > Has anyone gone through the process of connecting machines via a null modem
> > cable, and is PPP my best option?
>
> You'd better try plip if you have a parallel port.
>
> modprobe plip; ifconfig plip0 ...... ; route...
DO we need to load any module before this?
Or do we need to make some modification to our kernel?
Is there any other resource (URL, HOWTO, ...) which I cna refer for more
detail?
Thanks.
Regards,
yenjet
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