[ltp] Re: T43 and T43p entries on IBMs support page

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:19, Kelvin KAN wrote:
> What about those USB-Serial or Parallel converters?  They are easily
> available for less than US$20 (and HP even bundles usb-serial with their
> notebooks).  They worked very smoothly & stably for me in my previous
> port-less notebook, but bundled with Windows drivers only.   Any body
> any ideas about if there are Linux drivers?
>
> I still believe if IBM discarded the parallel port on T4n and Xnn, they
> could shrink the depth at least 1-cm shorter, and weight reduced a few
> tens of grams.

The parallel port ip device which is modelled on the product for the DOS era 
can be very useful in an emergency.

e.g.

modprobe plip
ifconfig plip0 10.0.0.1
plip0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FC:FC:0A:00:00:01
          inet addr:10.0.0.1  P-t-P:10.0.0.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378
-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell