[plug] plip the tragic conclusion

[Andrew Pamment]

hi,

you're all dying to hear from me i know. i decided to give up on plip. 
after thinking that after purchasing enough wire and making a huge 
laplink cable and figuring out the win98 thing, i decided that i was 
acting under the influence of plip-itis. a rare and horrible disease, it 
teases you buy being just within your reach but moves one step back when 
you reach out. however i thought i would turn over my research incase 
anyone else falls prey to this horrible disease and wants to see it 
through to the end. attached is an email from the guy whom got it to 
work on his win95 and linux box. his website www.tamale.net has the 
download with the plip driver and odi shim thingys. sorry to dissapoint 
you all i know you were dying for a happy ending. but this one is left 
open for a sequal, so who knows. however i have discovered invader zim 
and alas have a more constructive use for my time.

bye for now, farewell and god speed.

andrew

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: hi mike i am stupid
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:43:59 -0000 (GMT)
From: "Mike Leonhard" <mike at tamale.net>
To: apamment at yahoo.com
References: <3C5F357F.90602 at yahoo.com>

Andrew,

I've never owned Win98, but I got plip to work on Win95... after much
tweaking.

What you really should do is get the plip connection working in DOS first.
That means booting straight to the DOS prompt and using the ncsa telnet
package.  It has a ping program that you can use to ping your linux box.

My difficulty in setting up PLIP was in a couple of areas:

* Getting my BIOS setup for the LPT port correct
* Figuring out the `mode' of my LPT port, ie 4-bit, 8-bit, etc.
* Figuring out the confusing controls for the ncsa telnet stuff
* Keeping Windows from touching irq7 and screwing up the DOS driver

The Linux side was really easy.  Oh one thing that you may have to do is
enable arp on your plip0.  ifconfig plip0 arp

Also run tcpdump on the plip0 line while you're doing all your ping tests.

tcpdump -ltni plip0

Try rebooting Win98 into Safe Mode and then remove all LPT drivers.  You
have to keep Windows from even probing the LPT port so u may have to remove
lptenum.vxd.

I hope this helps.

Oh yes, and "Use the force Drew!"

-Mike_L
mike at tamale.net

<snip>
 > help me o b mikie you're my only hope.
 >
 > andrew
 > *end transmission*



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