Hi
I am trying to configure two PC's to talk to each other pver TCP/IP via a
Prolific usb cable. In had no success with kernel 2.4.1 and plusb driver, and
I read in some posting to try the usbnet driver instead, in later kernels.
I am now running 2.4.18, with the usbnet driver compiled into kernel (and
usbdevfs support, mainly for debugging).
When I boot up, it works fine. dmesg throws (on both machines)
usb0: register usbnet 001/002, Prolific\PL-2301/PL-2302.
If I run ifconfig usb0 , I get :
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 12:3D:00:7D:C2:45
BROADCAST MULTICAST 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:100
however, if I try and configure the actual net address by running
ifconfig usb0 10.0.0.1 up
(and ifconfig usb0 10.0.0.2 up in the other machine)
I get the following error:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Broken Pipe
This is what /var/log/messages says:
usb0: open reset fail (-32) usbnet 001/002, Prolific PL2301/PL-2302
And network does not work (ping says network unreachable). I think I
must be doing something wrong, because it is exactly the same symptoms
in both machines, but I do not what. Any ideas?
Thanks very much in advance.
Jaime
P.S. Incidentally, I have another network card (eth0) on each of the machines,
which work fine on our LAN, and with a static IP address assigned to the machine.
On kernel booting, there does not seem to be any conflict, and I actually bring
them down, just in case, before configuring the USB network. I am not sure whether
it matters, but I thought I'd mention.
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