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by **Alex Fitterlin** » Mon, 20 May 2002 06:45:54

Hi there..

I set up plip many times before, so no time I found myself faced with such
problem... What I have is an old notebook without CD-ROM, so I told my
friend ones again.. no problem linux can do data transfers without it.

So I booted up mulinux on one side, having debian on the other.

ping on the plip device on laptop side works , also on my workstation.

But pinging each other doesn't just work!

I use kernel 2.4.18, mulinux has version 13r2... works just fine.

I know , that the cable is a good one, I used it weeks before.

The transfer mode on laptop side (bios setup) can only be switched from
"bidirectional" to "unidirectional"... might it be, that "bidirectional" is
not working?

Or what kind of transfer modes has modern computers commonly... plip can
handle both, I think.. in the documentation I found mode 1 and 0 , which
stands right for the directional modes I mentioned before.

Can anybody help me ?

Is there any alternative, anyway ?

A.Fitterling

by **Wild Wizar** » Mon, 20 May 2002 09:35:01

> Hi there..

> I set up plip many times before, so no time I found myself faced with such
> problem... What I have is an old notebook without CD-ROM, so I told my
> friend ones again.. no problem linux can do data transfers without it.

> So I booted up mulinux on one side, having debian on the other.

> ping on the plip device on laptop side works , also on my workstation.

> But pinging each other doesn't just work!

> I use kernel 2.4.18, mulinux has version 13r2... works just fine.

> I know , that the cable is a good one, I used it weeks before.

you need to make sure that the parallel port is using an interupt
it wont work without it (you will need to load it as a module)

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by **Alex Fitterlin** » Mon, 20 May 2002 11:26:17

>> Hi there..

>> I set up plip many times before, so no time I found myself faced with
>> such
>> problem... What I have is an old notebook without CD-ROM, so I told my
>> friend ones again.. no problem linux can do data transfers without it.

>> So I booted up mulinux on one side, having debian on the other.

>> ping on the plip device on laptop side works , also on my workstation.

>> But pinging each other doesn't just work!

>> I use kernel 2.4.18, mulinux has version 13r2... works just fine.

>> I know , that the cable is a good one, I used it weeks before.

> you need to make sure that the parallel port is using an interupt
> it wont work without it (you will need to load it as a module)

Hi:)

Jepp, I knew that... but is there anything else to tink about ?

Alex

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