I have two machines both running centos 4.3. I have a laplink cable (parallel) between them. On one machine I do "echo Hello > /dev/parport0" on the other machine I wrote a short c program to open /dev/parport0 and when characters arrive print them on the screen. Seems simple enough but nothing comes across. Both machines parallel ports are set for PS/2 mode. Is there a reason this would not work? THanks, jerry
Scott Silva
2006-Jun-14 17:51 UTC
[CentOS] Re: 2 machines running centos and parallel ports
Jerry Geis spake the following on 6/14/2006 9:49 AM:> I have two machines both running centos 4.3. > I have a laplink cable (parallel) between them. > On one machine I do "echo Hello > /dev/parport0" > on the other machine I wrote a short c program to open /dev/parport0 > and when characters arrive print them on the screen. > Seems simple enough but nothing comes across. > Both machines parallel ports are set for PS/2 mode. > > Is there a reason this would not work? > > THanks, > > jerryI think you would have to setup plip. See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PLIP.html -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!