Re: Obsolete documentation?

Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-16T18:37:44Z

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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 Documentation is quite outdated.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?
> > >
>