I've been experimenting with PLIP on my (five) computers.
All of them work happily using DOS intersvr/interlnk, so
the cable and the parallel ports are working fine. Three
of them work well using Linux PLIP, but the other two do
not (no ping). I've mixed and matched the computers and
those two refuse to work with any of the others.
Let me emphasize that that the other three computers
work fine with each other using the same cable. My
procedure is the same on all the computers (insmod,
ifconfig, route). lp is a module on all computers and
I remove it before insmod plip.
I've done this over and over and the result is always
the same. I have reached the conclusion that the
parallel ports of those two computers are not fully
PLIP-capable. Although they work very well with
intersvr/interlnk, they are unable to work with PLIP.
My questions is: Is there a different PLIP module or
parameter which will make PLIP behave more like intersvr/
interlnk?
I have read the PLIP-HOWTO and there is a reference
to some parallel ports which transmit data but do
not receive. In this case the PLIP-HOWTO suggests:
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Try PLIP mode 0. Alas I do not know how to do it and/or
if it works or is still available in the last kernels."
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Not very helpful, is it? Perhaps one of you guys can
shed some light on this one.
Cheers,
Steven
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