Re: Obsolete documentation?

Georg Potthast
2020-02-16T21:17:20Z

ELKS does NOT have a special version of SLIP. Therefore you can communicate
with any Linux host provided you manage to configure this. I would recommend
to follow my instructions first to get an understanding how to set this up.
Then make a serial cross over connection cable and test that using two
terminal programs on each side. Getting the wires linked correctly and
providing the hardware signals is not trivial for someone who has not done
that before. If you can send across what you type you can start configuring
SLIP over this line.

Georg

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
From: Paul Osmialowski
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2020 7:37 PM
To: Georg Potthast
Cc: Paul Osmialowski ; Derek Johansen ; Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau ; ELKS
Subject: Re: Obsolete documentation?

Hi Georg,

Will it connect to SLIP/CSLIP interface as implemented in normal Linux
kernel (CONFIG_SLIP)?

Thanksm
Paul

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Georg Potthast wrote:

> I wrote a SLIP documentation which shows how to setup a SLIP connection
> between an ELKS system running in QEMU und the host where QEMU is running.
> You
> could send data from the host to the ELKS system and vice versa. This is
> this
> document:
> elks/Documentation/html/user/setup_slip.html
> To me this seemed easier to set up instead of two ELKS systems connected
> with
> a cross-over serial cable.
>
> Georg
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2020 6:05 PM
> To: Paul Osmialowski ; Derek Johansen
> Cc: ELKS
> Subject: Re: Obsolete documentation?
>
> Hello Derek and Paul,
>
> ELKS is indeed still SLIP capable :
> https://github.com/elks-org/elks/issues/304
>
> One has just to change the command line of 'ktcp' to remove Ethernet and
> put back SLIP.
>
> Documentation is quite outdated. Georges made an effort to document
> Ethernet and some other things while debugging networking features, but
> there are still many legacy documents that need to be reorderer and
> updated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> MFLD
>
>
> Le 16/02/2020 ? 12:08, Paul Osmialowski a écrit :
> > So what happened to SLIP support in ELKS? 8-bit ISA ethernet cards
> > (with RJ-45 connector) are very rare (I have only one of them, work
> > nicely
> > under FreeDOS and in theory it should be supported by ELKS's ne2k
> > driver,
> > but it isn't). Within my one more XT machine to play with ELKS, serial
> > port is the only means of external communication. PPP/IP or SLIP is
> > something ELKS should definitely have IMHO.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, Derek Johansen wrote:
> >
> > > Does elks/Documentation/text/networking_guide.txt make
> > > elks/Documentation/text/networking.txt obsolete? The latter in
> > > Section 2 says ELKS only supports SLIP connections. I don't think
> > > this is still true?
> > >
>