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On Saturday 24 June 2006 15:49, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs |
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> 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a |
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> twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to |
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> each other. So, I found in the depths of some old computer hardware |
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> box this old Symantec null modem cable, plugged it between my X40 and |
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> XP Desktop, and hoped for the best. I was able to configure XP as the |
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> host with no difficulties, however, I'm not sure what to do about |
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> Linux. I'm looking though Kuroo for things about Null Modems, but I'd |
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> imagine there's a more command-line friendly way to do this, since I |
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> am very much pro-command line. |
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The problem you'll face is the protocols on both ends of the wire will have to |
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be the same. That said, you won't have much luck. However, I ran a similar |
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setup between two linux computers using plip... Something like a poor mans |
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ethernet. |
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Good luck |
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