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James Miller wrote:

> I began setting things up the way Steven described 
> them for setting up network communications via parallel 
> port.  I should mention here that this is a BL2 system 
> I'm referring to.  I did insmod parport successfully.
> But when I tried insmod plip, I got an error: 

You missed out two steps.  See ~/netsetup (in BL2).
BTW, some parallel ports are not PLIP-capable.  In order
for PLIP to work, both ports need to work.  Two of my
five computers do not have PLIP-capable ports (it took
me several hours of mix+match to work that out).

Cheers,
Steven