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Re: [LUG] "laplink" USB connection

 

Hi Simon,

The only links I found in Google using "USB laplink Linux" as the search were from another LUG having less success than you. However I would suggest trying to ping between the machines first of all, and if that works, try mounting a shared resource on one of the machines with one of the others. I'm assuming you'll be using Samba at some stage as the laptop runs Win98.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/5143

This site is about PLIP but it seems to be fairly useful.

HTH

Kind regards,

Julian


Simon Robert wrote:


Hi

I'd like to have a USB link between my linux box, mandrake 10.1, and a laptop running w98. I have a laplink usb cable and when I plug it in the relevant drivers seem to load themselves and to some extent work, (looking at it via ip, ethtool and ifconfig).

How do I get to actually see and transfer stuff from the laptop? Can anyone advise on the next stage of setup or point me at a linux usb networking resource for dummies? I've had a look at plip, but that appears to be for serial port connections.

Any help received gratefully.

Thanks
   Simon

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