First post, by adalbert
I installed Lubuntu 10.04 on Presario 1800 laptop with COM port and WiFi card.
I have other machine with COM port (DOS and WIN98) which I would like to connect to the internet (i know that I can do it with an ethernet card, I'm just experimenting).
I connected the computers with a null-modem cable (it works fine for file transfers with other utilities).
I tried various combination of pppd command on the Linux machine, one example:
pppd ttyS0 9600 passive silent local lock mtu 576 192.168.1.17:192.168.1.18 netmask 255.255.255.0 proxyarp
then I booted into DOS mode on the other machine and used epppd.exe program:
epppd.exe com1 9600 local
and I always get this response: PPP link is down, driver not installed.
I have seen descriptions of that method in various places, but I can't get it to work. Does anyone have any idea how to set this kind of connection correctly?
Repair/electronic stuff videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/adalbertfix
ISA Wi-fi + USB in T3200SXC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX30t3lYezs
GUI programming for Windows 3.11 (the easy way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg