Re: [Sheflug] [OT, slightly] Parallel port network interfaces?

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

I had this very same query not so long ago. I did find a single parallel
port adapter, at a not too cheap 240 quid.

Null modem cable and a ppp/slip server is always good ;-)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> 
> Can anyone answer this ... are there in existance devices that connect to 
> parallel ports and take wither 10baseT or 10base2 network cable? Reason - 
> I've got this rather old laptop that must have been created in the primordial 
> soup in the early years, or maybe before, PCMCIA existed. As such, it doesn't 
> have one...so the only realistic way of networking it, short of running huge 
> lengths of serial cable about, is an adaptor like this.
> 
> Secondly, if they exists, where from and how much? :)
> 
> Thirdly ... although I'll be churning through the linux kernel tree myself 
> not long after hitting "send" on this, anyone know what the linux support is 
> like for them? :)
> 
> Chris...
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