Re: [NTLK] SLIP at home

From: Andrew Ruthven (puck_at_actrix.gen.nz)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 15:32:48 EST


Hi Donald,

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 06:25, Donald Wilson wrote:
>
> I'd like to use my 130 around my house, for email and similar things.
>
> I don't have an ethernet card for it, but I had this idea:

I had a similar problem, although it was more "Hmmm, unixnpi won't
install to this 2100, how to install the wireless ethernet driver...".

> I can easily run a couple more cat5 wires, or rewire some extra ports in some rooms, and connect it to the *Nix server in the basement via SLIP, but I can't find a Null-Modem driver in
> NIE.
>
> Has there been one written, so I can run SLIP over a null-modem cable?

Everything you need is already present, check out:

http://misf67.cern.ch/~reinhold/Newton/Newton_and_Linux-mini-HOWTO.html
or
http://home.k-town.de/~oehl/linux.html

(The first one has lot's of other info, and isn't just Linux.)

Good luck!

-- 
Andrew Ruthven
Senior Systems Engineer, Actrix Networks Ltd   -->   www.actrix.gen.nz
At Actrix puck_at_actrix.gen.nz
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