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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Where do I find instructions on using plip?  
> 
> /docs/Linux-HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO

Nowhere in there could I find any mention of plip1.  The author did say he 
had bought a parallel port card and would write up how to use plip with 2 
parallel ports after he got it working.  Apparently this never happened.

There was mention of using a printer switch box to use the same cable for 
printer and plip.  We have two of those.  You can make a parallel transfer 
cable by putting an adapter on a printer cable. Not quite sure how this 
would all work.  I also want to have a choice of two printers.

I eventually set up mdacon on this computer and discovered that a Hercules 
card is not compatible with AGP video (you get a blank screen on the TTL, 
probably because of memory overlap), so I replaced it with a sound card 
that uses IRQ 5, and I will put the onboard parport back to IRQ7.  This is 
my PII computer, with only 2 ISA slots, so I had a choice of sound or 
Hercules.  I will put Hercules in a PI with three slots (one for modem).
We ran across one (dead) fast PII with only one ISA slot.  Is it true that 
some newer computers have no ISA slots? (Or serial ports, or floppy 
drives).  Are there PCI sound cards or modems that don't require Windows?