Subj : Re: Neworking a DOS laptop with PLIP
To   : kirkspragg
From : mary4
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 10:47:05

 ki> Hey folks & fellow retro PC enthusiasts!
 ki> 
wassup! :D
 ki> I managed to pickup a pretty mint compaq SLT/386 a couple of weeks ago
 ki> with working monitor, keybaord, floppy and the original working hard
 ki> drive (ok its a conner so :( but still... it works!)
 ki> 
nice! i recently got my toshiba t1200 back from repair and got it online with a parallell port to ethernet adapter from xircom

  ki> Being a laptop
there no expansion slots to put things into & of course  ki> it does not have network card. But as well all know, one of the first  ki> things one must absolutely do with a new retro PC is to find some way to  ki> get it on the Internet! ki>
your just like me! >:3

 ki> I managed to do this using the plip packet driver for dos & using the
 ki> plip linux kernel module + some config to share Internet access via plip
 ki> - if people are interested, I'll be happy to explain how I set it all up
 ki> in more detail.
 ki> 
please tell me the details i am really curious how this works

 ki> Anyhow it did take a while get this working as in the end I had to
 ki> recompile the kernal with a modified config that had disabled support
 ki> for IEE 1284 transfer modes in the "Parallel Support section" of the
 ki> kernel config.
 ki> 
 ki> That made it all work. Without that, I just got lots of "plip0
 ki> timeout..." errors in the system logs on the linux server and no
 ki> connectivity at the laptop end...
 ki> 
interesting
whats your contact?
 ki> Anyone else played with plip to network an old PC with linux? did you
 ki> run into this issue? Is there some way to make this work via kernal
 ki> module option tweaks or some such???
 ki> 
i never did because i been too busy zand i need help with this!:3 
 ki> Just asking as this seems like the sorta thing some of you would have
 ki> tried, I wonder if any of you have run into the same issue? nope i need i help too with setting it up

we also need a plip box to exist from parallell port to ethernet. we could really use one xD

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