I am all for exploring weird corners out of curiosity. But your aversion to using network devices to do networking is just perverse.
I spent the Thursday-Saturday re-exploring dial-up modem networking. Turns out I had 5 dial-up modems of various descriptions in my basement. I was at ToorCamp on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, where ShadyTel had set up a temporary telephone system complete with twisted pair runs to tents and T1 trunk lines between upper and lower camp, and indecipherable service request forms. Along with some others, I rediscovered (approximately) how mgetty works. We made and answered dialup phone calls, we re-remembered Hayes AT commands, and wrote a rudimentary-but-effective bulletin board system using Bash, the Bourne Again Shell. We had mixed success with fax, because we hadn't brought a fax machine with us, and it was difficult to find reliable information on the internet today that described how to send random images on a file system from a scannerless fax/modem. It was all great fun. For a few days. Because we all knew how to do it once, and it had a nostalgic appeal. When I got home, I gladly returned to ethernet. Because I want to be able to copy files to accomplish other goals before my brief biological existence has expired. If you want to avoid ethernet, it would be super helpful to explain why, so we can better understand the motivation behind your constraints. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:05 AM, wes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 06/24/2018 06:48 PM, wes wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> > >> I've just ordered one so I can play with it for a bit myself. Perhaps at > >> the next Linux Clinic, if we have time, we can invite Richard to > >> participate remotely. > >> > > > > Should be "educational" ;/ > > I know of the existence of software, but have never attempted using. > > What software is used? Is there a good tutorial for someone coming to it > > cold? > > > What do you normally use to copy files? Probably something similar to that. > > > > > > > >> I also found the following writeups of people doing similar things with > >> this device: > >> > >> http://paulswasteland.blogspot.com/2014/01/getting-prolific- > >> pl-2501-based-usb-to.html > >> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/ > >> host-to-host-cable%3B-no-usb0-779573/ > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/516923 > >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=131042 > >> > >> The last one suggests that it "just works" - the previous 3 are older > and > >> talk about requiring a patch to a kernel module to get this cable to > work. > >> We don't really know what Richard's particular situation is. > >> > > > > The last one triggered some searches and following a mish-mash of links. > > I saw multiple mention of "USBNET" but I don't any Debian references > > although the are Ubuntu related links. > > > > When searching Synaptic separately for Avahi and zeroconf I do have > > several modules installed. Am I missing a particular module. I'm > currently > > running Debian 9 but don't have the DVD set. I have a Debian 8 set and > will > > do a less minimalist install. > > > > I also suspect that I need to use an older version to math what various > > references were using. I suspect that change of device naming conventions > > is muddying the waters - I've DVD sets going back to Squeeze. > > > > > You can probably avoid that requirement by configuring the network > interfaces manually, assuming there is not some missing piece of the puzzle > here. I haven't yet seen you attempt that and report results (maybe I > missed it). > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
