[plug] plip windows 98 <-> linux

[Adrian Woodley]

G'Day,
	I looked into this for a similar reason - the school bought a laptop
without a NIC. I had a linux proxy server up and decided that plip was the
way to go (the bloody laptop didn't have a serial port). I was a little
disheartend when I read in the plip howto that it was not possible, but it
did describe how to connect a dos box using plip. My plan was to use the
does 'driver' for plip, as mentioned in the howto, in conjunction with
Trumpet Winsock. The driver provides a raw network interface (I think) and
winsock can then put tcp/ip over it. However, I'm not sure how good my
reasoning was as I never got around to trying it. This maybe a good
starting place anyway.

Good luck!
Adrian

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:50:33PM +0800, Andrew Pamment wrote:
> > Ah ha! Just what I needed to here. now I have to figure it out.
> 
> Grasshopper, perhaps learn to crawl you should before building a
> mechanical
> exoskeleton enabling you to run 100m in pi seconds. :)
> 
> Slightly more seriously - you may find yourself simply running up against
> a
> brick wall. If no one else has been able to do it (and I'm sure some
> fairly
> knowledgeable people have tried) the odds are probably not in your
> favour.
> 
> Don't let that stop you trying, though - but do heed the sig. :) 
> 
> > can I get honourary guru status if I do?
> 
> Well, you'll be ahead of half the people on this list if you can start
> trimming and not top-posting, hint hint. :]
> 
> > Andrew
> 
> Pete.
> -- 
> http://akira.apana.org.au/~pete/
> If at first you don't succeed, try and try and try again. And then give
> up.
> There's no point making a damn fool out of yourself.
> 		-- Dilbert's Rules of Work, slightly paraphrased
>