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Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
> Bl2.02 is easier to evaluate, booting with two floppies 
> instead of tomsrtbt's one and, fortunately for me, Steven 
> had included all the NIC drivers I need.. List available 
> on my version herewith:
> ------------------------------------------------------
> /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc
>  3c509.o.gz         lp.o.gz            plip.o.gz
>  3c59x.o.gz         ne.o.gz            ppp.o.gz         
>  8390.o.gz          ne2k-pci.o.gz      slhc.o.gz
>  eepro.o.gz         parport.o.gz       slip.o.gz
>  loop.o.gz          parport_pc.o.gz    smc-ultra.o.gz
>  wd.o.gz
> ------------------------------------------------------

Two extra network modules were added to BL2.1:  ewrk3 and
tlan.  And eepro was replaced by eepro100.


Ron Clarke wrote:
> >
> > I have a RAM disk version of BL2 on that machine, but 
> > I am not yet anywhere near proficient in Linux to set 
> > up a networking BasicLinux RAM installation.

The difficult part is figuring out which module (and which
parameters, if any) your network card requires.  For example,
if you have two computers, one with a tlan card and the other
with an eepro100 card, it's pretty simple:
-------------------------------------------------------------
insmod tlan                         insmod eepro100
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1           ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
ping 192.168.1.2                    ping 192.168.1.1
receive                             send
-------------------------------------------------------------
The ping line is there just to test the connection.  It doesn't
do anything important.  The send/receive utility is the way to 
transfer files between two ramdisk BLs.  With a bigger Linux on 
one of the machines (with web server and/or NFS server), you 
could access it from BL using links or NFS mount.

Cheers,
Steven