[plug] plip windows 98 <-> linux

[Andrew Pamment]

Thanks guys,

I've done the ppp - serial thing before, problem is I wanna hook it up 
to my 486 and i dont think that has 16550 uarts or whatever in it so max 
i could proberly get reliably is 19200 i reckon. anyone wanna tell me 
i'm wrong?

thanks again

andrew

Kai wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I haven't tried to get Laplink working from windows -> linux but this 
> miay be helpfull:
> 
> http://www.linuxhq.com/ldp/howto/Serial-Laplink-HOWTO/
> http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html
> 
> HTH
> 
> Kai
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Pamment" <apamment at yahoo.com>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:46 AM
> Subject: [plug] plip windows 98 <-> linux
> 
> 
>  > hi,
>  >
>  > my flat mate has a laptop the we would like to add to our network. He
>  > cant afford a pcmcia ethernet card, and we have a laplink cable. I was
>  > wondering if it's possible to use that as another network device, then
>  > somehow route stuff between the laplink and my ethernet card and ppp
>  > connection. i don't know a lot about networking, but i understand you
>  > can use plip? problem is he has win98 and well, i don't think linux is
>  > for him in this lifetime. is it possible? and if so can someone point me
>  > in the direction of some info on it?
>  >
>  > thanks
>  >
>  > andrew
>  >
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> 
> 


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- Lord of the Rings is boring. There is a distinct lack of giant robots 
in it. Good movies have giant robots, bad movies don't. -james