On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Chris Wrobel wrote:
> HI there I am trying to access the computer network at my university via
> laptop and a serial cable. Actually it is a cable with serial end for
> the laptop and parallel for the socket.
You mean a DB9 serial connector on one end and a DB25 serial connector on
the other end.
> THe way it works is that you
> have to establish a tcip connection just like a regular dial up with
> user name and password but in this case there is no modem to dial out,
> the connection has to go straight out the serial COM1 ttys0. Windows and
> mac users have a special modem driver to get around that problem that
> makes the OS think that there is a modem.
> Anyway the key here is that the connection is just like the dialup
> except that there is no modem to initiate. Unfortunately noone has
> accomplished a connection with Linux yet so for now anyway I'm on my own
> to figure it out. I read up a how to on null modems but I'm still
> confused any IDeas?? thanks in advance...
If you have a working cable it shouldn't be hard.
I would try to setup ppp as if it were for a modem, and (before trying,
because it won't work yet) change the chat script (probably in /etc/ppp/ ,
the name will contain 'chat' or 'dial' or something like that) and remove
everything modem related.
Frank
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