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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> 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).
>
Ok.  That helped.  I had high hopes for this old laptop since it's a
decent machine for its class (486 DX4 100, 20MB RAM).  Given that, with
the netsetup stuff in place, I can ping the laptop from the desktop but
not vice versa (100% packet loss results from the latter attempt), should
I assume I have a laptop with a non PLIP-capable port?  I guess 10
baseT pcmcia network cards can be had fairly cheaply, if need be.

Thanks, James