Ulrich Hansen <uhan...@mainz-online.de> wrote: > If someone else would like to help: > Both laptops have a network card and an appropriate packet driver loaded. > The LEDs on the network cards were on, so they found a network. > wattcp.cfg was configured to the IP adresses 192.168.0.1 (laptop 1) > and 192.168.0.2 (laptop 2). But pinging the other laptop didn't work > - wattcp ping complained: "Cannot resolve host's hardware address". > Also the ping programs from mTCP and Datalight sockets didn't work. > The crossover cable connection works without a problem if I boot Debian Linux > on both of the laptops.
> Does anyone has an idea? Please note that WATTCP is _NOT_ a permanently loaded TCP/IP stack in the same sense as it might be familiar from operating systems like LINUX or WINDOWS. It's rather a library that is linked directly into each application using WATTCP. As a consequence of this no TCP/IP functionality is available while no such program is running. Therefore ping cannot work in the set-up you described. Start on one of the computers a program that uses the WATTCP library and that doesn't terminate immediately. This might be either a server program or a client that waits for some user input. Then ping that computer from the other one and you should get a response. In any case you would need a server (e.g. an FTP server) on one computer and a corresponding client program on the other one to transfer files. If it's just a simple file transfer, then a NETCAT program (which can be used in server _or_ client role) will do. Mike Brutman has such a program in his collection and i wrote a similar one, which i called NTOOL. It can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/. Which one you eventually prefer will be a matter of personal taste. ___________________________________________________________ Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
