>> From: J�rome Aug�[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Subject: Re: Redhat 6 and PLIP installs
>>
>> Try to use the "plipconfig" command on your desktop machine to change
>> the default timing parameters ... This solved the timeouts I had between
>> a K6-2 333 and a P100 laptop because PLIP connection is sensible to the
>> CPU speed of each machine.
Hi,
I don't have plipconfig on my desktop machine (that's running redhat
5.2). I did, however, get things working last night by editing the
plip.c source code and setting the timeouts in there to double their
normal values, then doing a make modules and make modules_install to
rebuild the plip.o driver.
This was for the link between my P120 desktop and the old 486dx33 laptop
I was installing to. It still gave a few timeouts but at least recovered
from them - I used an ftp install rather than NFS as from what I
remember NFS doesn't recover too well from link failure. I did see a few
timeouts on the laptop side of things too, so I'm not sure if it was all
down to the laptop's parallel port being slow or not...
James - I hunted down a proper laplink cable to try this with, but I
figure my old homebrew cable would have been fine with the changed
timeouts; I suggest you give yours a try again either with plipconfig
suggested above if you have it or by editing the driver source code.
cheers all,
Jules
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