Re: tlug: serial connection with laptop

["Eric Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

On a further note.  Since PLIP has been recommended and I was actually going
to look for a way to increase the number of printer ports on my box, I have
a question.

What is the prefered way to increase the number of parallel ports, and while
I am at it serial ports too, especially with regards to Linux.  By serial
ports, I mean game ports to put it simply.

And, how do you find them on the net?  I looked at egghead for a good deal,
but there were so many technical sounding names and features that I had no
understanding of so that I quit trying to undertand that.

Thanks for your support,
Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara-shi <Kintetsu Yamato Yagi>
Nara, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>
To: tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: tlug: serial connection with laptop


>> Okay, I will try to find that book in English.  Maybe I will order it
from
>> Amazon.com.
>????? It always has been in English. The author is a German,
>sure, but he wrote it in English. Technical literature in
>Germany is mostly written in English. Later on he did a German
>translation, "Linux fuer Netzwerker". I have the English
>version.
>> I do have a question though.  If you use ppp for the nullmodem, then how
to
>> you pon to the ISP?  Is that what you meant by the use of the gateways?
I
>No, no. That's just to connect two local computers via the
>serial i/f. I use it to simulate and test installations. I have
>an old 386SX20 note with 4MB RAM around, a slow bugger and I use
>it to simulate an ISP and to test my config. This saves money
>and at the same time allows an easy trackdown of config problems
>( you just can watch at the server side ).
>> guess that is also in the Networking book.
>Of course. This is a PPP configuration for fixed IP addresses.
>> On a slight side-note, is there a script out there to 'pon', 'smail <get
>> mail option>', and 'poff'?  Just want to save some Yen by getting off the
>> phone asap...
>Well, you could make a script that does a regular "ifconfig" to
>detect when ppp0 is up, then starts sendmail, and when sendmail
>terminates, does a poff. No problem.
>> Thanks Karl.  I am beginning to be very amazed at the technical prowess
of
>> this group.  Too bad there isn't a local chapter here in Nara-ken...
>I am located in Munich, Germany, BTW........so if you have more
>problems, just jump over here. Those ridiculous 20000 km.....
>
>                                  Karl-Max Wagner
>                                  karlmax@example.com
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