A relevant tidbit on how I suspect you became overwhelmed...
"In the Beginning," we were throwing lots of commands at you, trying to
ascertain what name your system had assigned the network interface... You
diligently reported back to us, and one of them ('dmesg' in this case),
gave us the answers:
1) The hardware itself is a Prolific USB-to-serial device, and
2) It is being treated as a network interface, and
3) it has a name.
Once we knew that... The output of everything before that became
irrelevant... All we ever wanted from those were the network interface
name. We got that from dmesg, so now onward to configuring the interface,
then on to file sharing.
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 09:35 Tyrell Jentink <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 09:23 Richard Owlett <[email protected]> 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.
>
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