Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest that you look into making a ethernet-serial connector. I > won't swear that this can be done...but I would expect that you can find > the pin-outs for a standard 10bT connection and match them to the > pin-outs for the DB9 connector and make a cross over cable as such. As > long as you are running SLIP on the debian end...the windows box > shouldn't know anything was different. > (see http://www.pccables.com/01910.htm) for a picture of a commercial > solution) > > Again YMMV. I haven't actually tried this but I have had to do transfers > over a regular serial cable. > > You might also want to look at: > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Serial-Laplink-HOWTO/
Interesting idea, I'd be able to try that if I had a second connection to the network or the windows system. The serial-laplink howto is a document that I tried to get to yesterday and the day before that, but I kept getting socket errors. Today I can get through. Right now, because of a lack of resources (such as cables), I'll try my "dial-in" method, and hope it works. Part of this is because on the last day of class before the winter break, I told the networking teacher (I never took his networking courses) that I would try to get a semi-functional network going with my systems. I now have some possibilities to connect two of the four systems (now, how will I go about the 286 that doesn't recognise its floppy drive and the 386sx with 1M memory and a half-installation of MSDOS 3.3 and doesn't boot if its hardware is changed). I _really_ want to at the very least get the two newest computers connected. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]