On Saturday 24 June 2006 15:49, Lord Sauron wrote: > I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs > 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a > twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to > each other. So, I found in the depths of some old computer hardware > box this old Symantec null modem cable, plugged it between my X40 and > XP Desktop, and hoped for the best. I was able to configure XP as the > host with no difficulties, however, I'm not sure what to do about > Linux. I'm looking though Kuroo for things about Null Modems, but I'd > imagine there's a more command-line friendly way to do this, since I > am very much pro-command line. >
---snip--- The problem you'll face is the protocols on both ends of the wire will have to be the same. That said, you won't have much luck. However, I ran a similar setup between two linux computers using plip... Something like a poor mans ethernet. Good luck -- [email protected] mailing list
