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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Ethernet Support
Date: 8 Aug 1995 23:10:17 -0500
Organization: MCSNet communications
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Message-ID: <409cf9$boh@Mercury.mcs.com>
References: <807804396.8305@kiss.demon.co.uk> <405geh$18g@helena.MT.net> <4077e8$70o@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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In article <4077e8$70o@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
>Hi Nate,
> Could you point me at a pin-pin config
>for this Laplink cable. I want to set up my wifes
>486 to use my printer and was wondering how to do this!!
The pin configuration for the cable is in the header comment in the
driver. /sys/i386/isa/lpt.c
You need a ten conductor cable and two mail db25's. The parallel port
shouldn't have to be enabled bi-directionally because the cable "maps"
5 of the data lines to bits on the status register and then transmits
each byte as two nibbles + an ack/ready bit.
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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