Hi,
I am trying to establish a PLIP connection between two PCs:
The first is a pentium MMX with one parallel port. It has a full linux
partition RH 5.0, kernel
2.0.32 recompiled with kerneld and modular support for PLIP and lp. And a
win95 enabled partition.
The second is a 486 with two parallel ports. It has a small DOS 6.22
partition and a basic linux
file system on the other partitions. I boot on linux from a rescue disk
(tomsrtbt 1.7,55 with
modular support for PLIP and lp. No kerneld).
I have no problems printing from the pentium, either in linux or in win95
mode, or to
transfer files from the DOS sections by interlnk/intersvr. I did not try to
print from the 486.
When issuing the commands ifconfig plip1 192.168.0.1 pointopoint
192.168.0.2 up in the
pentium, or insmod /lib/modules/net/plip.o followed by ( ifconfig plip1
192.168.0.2 pointopoint
192.168.0.1 up or ifconfig plip0 192.168.0.4 pointopoint 192.168.0.3 up )
in the 486 I get the
correct answer (confimed by the answer to ifconfig issued without
arguments) but when I try to
ping 192.168.0.1 from the pentium or 192.168.0.4 or 192.168.0.2 from the
486 (their OWN end
of the connection) the stubborn answer is network unreachable. Same answer
when I try an route add
command.
Any ideas ?
Two additional facts: 1-Linux and DOS/win95 agree on the interrupt values
and addresses of the ports.
2-Neither the 486 no the prntium report anything about the parralel port at
boot time, unless I
use a boot floppy with non-modular kernel. In this case, the message is:
lp0 at 0x03bc, (polling)
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
lp1 off-line
Thanks a lot, Avraham
