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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!