A week ago, I asked for drivers for ethernet modules to plug on the
parallel port. 

Here are the replies I got.


From: bj0rn@blox.se (Bjorn Ekwall)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 01:52:14 +0000
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To: aa@info.ucl.ac.be
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver for Linux
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In article <1993Jun23.065720.22790@info.ucl.ac.be> you wrote:

 > Another one:

 > Is there an ethernet module to plug in the parallel port supported by
 > Linux ? (for notebook backups or file transfer)

 > Andre

Answer: Yes!

A driver for the D-Link DE-600 is included in NET-2 (i.e. in Linux 99pl10).
You can also find it an earlier release in:
        tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dlink/...

Good luck,

Bjorn Ekwall == bj0rn@blox.se



From: michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver for Linux
To: aa@info.ucl.ac.be (Andre April)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 07:28:43 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <9306300647.AA27215@info-sparc1.info.ucl.ac.be> from "Andre April" at Jun 30, 93 08:46:22 am
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quoted text
> Recently, Michael Will mailed the following message:
> > 
> > there is this PLIP-thing which is the countrpart for SLIP :-)
> > 
> > It does a fast IP over a null-paralell-cable...
> > 
> > You do not need special hardware apart from the cable which is sold under
> > the label "laplink-paralell-cable" :-)
> > 
> 
> Thank you. Where can I get it ?
The driver is in the latest kernel 0.99p10, in the sls-package there where
patches for 0.99p8 and p9, but I do not know if they work...

The cable at you local computershop I suppose :-)

Cheers, Michael Will



That's it. Hope it is enough...

Andre 

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Andre April
Unite d'Informatique
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Belgium

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