From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262956AbTEGHjH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 03:39:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262957AbTEGHjH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 03:39:07 -0400 Received: from herculanum.int-evry.fr ([157.159.11.15]:31135 "EHLO herculanum.int-evry.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262956AbTEGHjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 03:39:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB8BB0B.8040708@ac-creteil.fr> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 09:51:39 +0200 From: Yann COLLETTE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PLIP Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm trying to connect a laptop to a my home computer using a PLIP connection. On both computers, I've a Linux Mandrake 9.0 with a kernel 2.4.20. In /etc/hosts, I have pc.home.org 198.168.0.1 and laptop.home.org 198.168.0.2 For /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, I've followed the PLIP-HOWTO advices. I've configured the parport_pc module (for both pc): insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 The kernel messages are fine with this configuration. Then I had the plip module (insmod plip). On the laptop, I do: ifconfig plip0 laptop.home.org pointopoint pc.home.org netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add -host pc.home.org dev plip0 And on my home computer I do: ifconfig plip0 pc.home.org pointopoint laptop.home.org netmask 255.255.255.255 up route add -host laptop.home.org dev plip0 On the laptop, when I ping the pc, nothing happens and on the pc, when I ping the laptop, nothing happens too. I don't knwo where I am wrong: - Maybe my parport in not really bidirectionnal on my laptop (how can I now if a parport can communicate ?) - Maybe there's a problem with the way I configure the plip module (I don't known how to dive into the kernel sources to extract informations about how to configure a module. There are no information about the plip module in the kernel documentation). Your sincerely, Yann COLLETTE