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!
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