Hey Yo Hoh, everybody! after "modprobe plip" (on woody,2.4.9,with modules parport, parport_pc and plip) i get the following:
plip0: parport0 has no IRQ. using IRQ-less mode, which is fairly
inefficient!
plip0: parallel port at 0x378, not using IRQ.
but while booting i read something like: parport0 using IRQ7 (which would
fit nicely with 0x378, wouldnt it?)
BTW, i want to use plip to set my baby laptop up with debian (no CD only
4megs of ram (no bootdisk).... but
the disk is huge - well, kind of (1GB)).
(or is there a way of directly installing from my "big"
pc via plip onto my laptop?
i tried this of course, but i cannot load the modules
before giving a root-partition (which is
supposed to be on the laptop... also "alt-f2"ing to a
console i couldnt get plip to working)
so (on bigdebby, the "real" PC) "ifconfig plip0 bigdebby pointopoint
babylap"
- works (at least doesnt complain - no news is....)
"ifconfig plip0" shows:
plip0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:7F:00:00:01
inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.12 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP 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:10
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:255 Base address:0x378
2nd line: P-t-P "my.baby.laptop.computer"; the Mask: on my baby laptop i use
mask 255.255.255.0 (could
this turn out to cause problems? how do i change it on
debian (not having an /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 - file))
last line: Interrupt: 255 ,why that? why does it choose an IRQ? or is 255
not a "real" IRQ? how do i change the
devices IRQ?
now, i can "route add plip0 baby
well, many questions and i havent got a clue of what to do here - if you are
any wiser, _please_ let me know.
oh, yes: on the laptop i can use plip - i already have "monkeylinux" running
which intalls onto an existing
DOS-FAT (you have to start it from dos using loadlin) but i dont get any
apps to work under X (yes i intend to
use X - did work with "2diskX", but again no apps for me - i need a small
wordprocessor (i had abiword in
mind) any suggestions on alternatives on that are appreciated, too)
if you know a fine non-X wordpro (like the good old "word" ;) ) please also
inform me on that.
that would solve all my prob easiest - i dont need X, but so far nobody was
able to tell me a non-X wordpro for
linux :(
im counting on all of you out there
thank you very much
cu
kamome
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