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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to use lp0? Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:29:47 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3h453b$8j@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <gsq0fU0@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote: : I tried hooking two FreeBSD machines up together with a 25 pin straight : cable, but neither would talk to the other, and both started giving : 'too many errors, downing interface' or some such. What sort of cable : do you have to make to get this to work (and might someone have done : well to put this in the man page :-) )? : -- : Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | Pinochio was an oddity. : N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | : +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | With most guys, it's not their nose : URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | that gets longer when they lie. I beleive you have to use a 'laplink' cable - it's got some of the lines switched but I don't know which. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....