RE: PLIP and win95
The problem here may be Win95's quirky winsock; Win98 has a completely
redesigned one, that is supposed to be along better with the rest of the
world.
Hank
-----Original Message-----
From: David Karlin [mailto:funk48@travelin.com]
Sent: Monday, August 31, 1998 1:58 PM
To: servis@purdue.edu; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: PLIP and win95
> I have never used it but Win95 has this built in.
> Select the following to install the driver.
>
> Start Menu-Setup-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-Windows Setup-
> Communications-Direct Cable Connection.
>
> Is that not what you want?
That is (probably) *not* what one wants for a win95 plip connection. From
what I have read, win95's "Direct Cable Connection" must run at *both* ends
of the connection.
>
> As a discouraging side note, this is a quote from section 9 of the new
> PLIP mini-HOWTO.
>
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/PLIP-Mini-HOWTO.txt.gz
"No, so far nobody reported me a successful link between Linux
and Windows 95. if somebody succeds in setting up this link,
please let me know immediately: thousand of PLIP users await
these news!"
I recently received an email forwarded to me from someone who claims to have
successfully made such a connection. It involves a (imho) a rather kludgy
solution involving PLIP.EXE, Trumpet Winsock (original 16-bit version). I
think that I've deleted that particular email, but I have a hardcopy
somewhere and will post it when I come across it.
Good luck
*- David Karlin wrote about "RE: PLIP and win95"
| John,
| There is a program called "PLIP.EXE" freely available from Crynwr
| (http://www.crynwr.com). It is a packet driver designed to run under DOS
| and sends packets from the parallel port to WINSOCK.DLL.
|
| I am in the process of setting it up on my Win95 box, but have not
completed
| it yet. I would be interested to hear about your progress. Please feel
to
| email me directly or via this list.
|
| Good luck!
|
| --David
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: john mcpeek [mailto:j_mcpeek@bellsouth.net]
| > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 1998 7:51 AM
| > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| > Subject: PLIP and win95
| >
| >
| >
| > Does anyone know how to make win95 use the LPT port as the network
| > interface so I can setup a link between my linux box with PLIP and my
| > win95 box
| >
--
Brian
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