[plug] plip windows 98 <-> linux

[Andrew Pamment]

i had thought of that, place i went first didnt have them, i imagine 
they're pretty hard to find?

Kai wrote:

> Andrew,
> 
> If you're keen you can probably buy an ISA card with jumper configurable 
> I/O, IRQ and Com ports, which has two 16550A UARTS on it, I got one a 
> while back for $30 from a local computer shop in Perth.
> 
> Use setserial to tell your Linux machine it's got the extra ports 
> available, that'll get it working that little bit faster.
> 
> /Kai
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Pamment" <apamment at yahoo.com>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] plip windows 98 <-> linux
> 
> 
>  > 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
> 
> -- snip --
> 


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