On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 09:23 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 06/20/2018 06:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 06/19/2018 11:10 AM, Galen Seitz wrote: > > [*SNIP*] > >> Well, your Prolific PL25A1-based cable isn't just two Ethernet chips > >> back to back, but it's close. It uses the same networking framework > >> as USB to Ethernet adapters. Here's a bit of info on the driver. > >> This is as much for Russell as for you. > >> <https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_USBNET.html> > >> > >> With both ends of the cable connected, please run the ip addr command > >> on one of your hosts and post the complete output. > > > > Will be in this afternoon's post. > > > > I'm late. > But the delay has been educational. > Several times, when asked to run command XYZ, the response has been of > the general form "that response was not consistent with what was > previously posted about that command *AND/OR* what was reported for > command ABC". > No... If I understand what you're getting at, that has been addressed, and I was wrong... Everything looked plenty consistent, I just looked too quickly. OK, before you continue to get too far off track... Everything is perfect. You have a network interface, dmesg told you it's name. Now you can configure it like any other network interface. I assume you are still using Debian? Here is their relevant documentation: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration You SHOULD even be able to do it in NetworkManager... Just set static IP addresses on both sides. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug