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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Continued from September, when we tried to transfer files between WinXP 
and BL3 via network cable after transferring camera photos to XP via USB. 
(No USB on the laptop and we did not take the parport zip drive).

While testing a dead router with no wireless signal, I tried using it as a 
hub and it is also dead for wired signals, but in the process I confirmed 
that the working Linksys router with built-in hub works with both linux 
and Win98.  I have three combo ethernet modem cards, one with dead 
ethernet and two with dead modem, but if you have one that works you would
specify the manfid or version (product info) on the second line after card 
name, then bind "pcnet_cs", "serial_cs" (for a pcnet_cs model).

I stuck the pcnet_cs card (with dead modem) into Win98 and it loaded the 
drivers automatically, no 18MB download as for the cardbus wireless 
Linksys.  I plugged into the working router and ran from a DOS box 
ipconfig, which assigned me a leased IP address 192.168.1.101 with 
gateway/dns (router) 192.168.1.1, and I could ping either one, or ping 
192.168.1.0 and it would ping both alternately.

I stuck another pcmcia ethernet card into the linux laptop, booted with 
the wrong kernel and did pcmcia start, and could not run udhcpc (I need to 
recompile it with something changed to match Steven's kernels, also to 
work with loop linux) but I could ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.102.  If I 
rebooted with 2.2.26 I could run udhcpc which gave the same results. 
ping 192.168.1.0 pinged all three IP addresses successfully.  BL2 Ping 
only tells me they are alive, not the details (older busybox, or compiled 
differently).

I then tried the telnetd in busybox110 which I had compiled, and it would 
not run in BL3 without /bin/login.

Rebooted into BL2 (wrong kernel again) and pcmcia'd (sometimes I need to 
reboot when it stops finding the sockets too) and ifconfig'ed and pinged 
as a test.  Then ran busybox 1.1.10 telnetd in /root on linux.

With Opera, I telnetted to 192.168.1.102 and was asked to login.  Root 
login not allowed (I would need to edit /etc/securetty adding ttyp0 etc to 
allow root login, on vt1 etc.).  Then I tried logging in as user, and it 
logged me in without a password, said there was no /home and put me into 
/, where I could write a test program with pico and save it.  I cannot run 
zgv as user on either computer (zgv is permitted but svgalib needed 
something changed having to do with superusers?).  If I type mutt as user 
in Win98 it starts making loud noises.

I did not try this online because I did not have ipchains to make a 
firewall on the linux computer while running telnetd.

httpd in busybox (run from the directory where I want to serve files with 
no options, just defaults) loaded but did not serve the directory. 404 not 
found.  Has anyone used it with BL?

So I got mini_httpd.tar.gz which was compiled for BL and it allows me to 
access linux from Win98 and move files to Win98.  I then installed Windows 
Internet Tools Personal Web Server but Win98 still has no httpd.

I will go find an ftpd from Slackware.

With luck people will let me add my own pcmcia network card to their 
laptop and load default software for it, but I doubt they want kermit 
added, or any demons.

We have a Networking for Dummies that includes Windows 2000 and 'Linux 
6.2'.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org