[CentOS] Re: 2 machines running centos and parallel ports

[Scott Silva]

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,
> 
> jerry
I think you would have to setup plip.
See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PLIP.html


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