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  • From: <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] plip link for remote xsession?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 04:54:24 -0400 (EDT)

Have you gone into CMOS (setup) and enabled bidirectional use of parallel
port? But it sounds like the in is okay and the out is not.



On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 jamtat AT mailsnare.net wrote:

> 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
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