From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FuF4Y-0008Mw-2e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:49:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5OKiQLo016295; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:44:26 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.192.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5OKEPLt031563 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:14:26 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060624201424m1100b1jdne>; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:14:24 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:14:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606241614.23432.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 5b00a8fa-5987-4fae-aac4-483f0ab133ca X-Archives-Hash: 93e805e3fcd2ce42229c3a764cd3330f On Saturday 24 June 2006 15:49, Lord Sauron wrote: > I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs > 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a > twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to > each other. So, I found in the depths of some old computer hardware > box this old Symantec null modem cable, plugged it between my X40 and > XP Desktop, and hoped for the best. I was able to configure XP as the > host with no difficulties, however, I'm not sure what to do about > Linux. I'm looking though Kuroo for things about Null Modems, but I'd > imagine there's a more command-line friendly way to do this, since I > am very much pro-command line. > ---snip--- The problem you'll face is the protocols on both ends of the wire will have to be the same. That said, you won't have much luck. However, I ran a similar setup between two linux computers using plip... Something like a poor mans ethernet. Good luck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list