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  • From: falacy <bsdfalacy AT shaw.ca>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] plip pooched... BL 2.1 to FreeBSD 5.1
  • Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:10:48 +0000

Well, I managed to get BL2.1 talking to FreeBSD 5.1 over the parallel port!
Here is the line that you'll need to have on your BSD box in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_lp0="inet 192.168.1.5 link0 192.168.1.9 netmask 0xff000000"

It's the link0 that is the most important part, as it tells the BSD box to
use
a different protocol that is compatible with the linux version. This leads me
to my annoying issue...

Ok kids, I can ping, NFS mount my BSD box (I am able to change dirrectoies
remotely), but when I attempt to transfer any files my little BL 2.1 laptop
spits out this timeout error,

plip0: receive timeout(5,c0)
nfs: server 192.168.1.5 not sesponding, still trying
nfs: server 192.168.1.5 not sesponding, still trying
nfs: task 26 can't get a request slot

Now, it seems rather odd to me that it is able to comunicate nicely until a
file transfer is to take place, so it could likely be my BSD setup. Either
that, or the timeout on the laptop is set too fast (wich is something I do
not know how to change - no bios settings). Any suggestions would be awesome!

Thanks a bunch for the help thus far,

Rob.





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