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> i'm trying to establish a PLIP connection between a laptop & desktop, both
> of which use the RH 6.0 distribution. in linuxconf i configured PLIP on
> both machines to install during bootup; and as each machine comes up, PLIP
> services show as starting. but whenever i try to start PLIP through
> linuxconf, the status of plip0 stays blank, and when i type ifconfig plip0
> i get plip0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> after all that, whenever i shutdown either machine, each shows a
> successful shutting down of plip services.
>
> any ideas? even SWAGs (scientific wild-ass guesses) would be appreciated,
> as i don't know where to go from here.
>
What happens when you try to start the interface by hand? (ifconfig plip0 up)
Are there any related messages in a dmesg?
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