From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 26 11:12:50 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA03868 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:12:50 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03849 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:12:37 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA25982; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:11:40 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507261811.LAA25982@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: if_zp driver To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com, freebsd-hardware@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jul 26, 95 11:27:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 917 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, James Leppek wrote: > > > I really need to hook a couple of notebooks together to move a > > large amount of data for a demo and I do not have a small hub. > > Hmmmm maybe I could just flip the transmit and receive TP lines, > > kind of like a TP NULL modem :-) Yes, you can do that, cross compling of TP ethernet works just fine, if you need the cable wiring for this it is: A B 1 3 2 6 3 1 6 2 > > if you can live with 70kB/s, get yourself a laplink cable and use > lp0 to transfer the data from box to box. (a wiring diagram is in > /sys/i386/isa/lpt.c). i bought a cable at microcenter for ~$10. A reasonable alternative, but if you already have the ethernet and the tools to make the cable that is a better solution. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD