I own a cd burner and two CDROM, so I'm doing this overall as a "training" in net conections, but I must resolve this before I can take a most difficult challenge: a real mini-home-Lan
Chris Majewski wrote: > > No idea, but I had the same problem last summer, and gave up (I was > setting up a new machine and ended up transferring the data via 100M > Zip disks).. > -chris > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel > > 2.2.17) with my PIII 800 with Debian woody (2.2.18 recompiled) using a > > "laplink" cable. I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already > > tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove > > anything, but..), I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping > > step. My potato says plip0: transmit timeout(1,87) and my woody stays > > forever waiting for an answer. This are my settings: > > > > potato: > > > > plip0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:C0:A8:00:01 > > inet addre:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 > > Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378 > > > > route 192.168.0.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 plip0 > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 plip0 > > > > woody: > > > > plip0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:C0:A8:00:02 > > inet addre:192.168.0.2 P-t-P:192.168.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 > > Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378 > > > > route 192.168.0.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 plip0 > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 plip0 > > > > They're supposedly ok, but when I try to connect they don't communicate. > > ¿any suggestion? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com