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Re: [PLUG] Printer failure
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At one time when i was a poor college student i used it to connect two
desktops because i didn't have ethernet cards....problem was it really
lagged the poor 486/33 and 486/66 down, you'd start an FTP or NFS copy and
end up locked up for the duration =)
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Michael Leone wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:57:36 -0400
> From: Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Printer failure
>
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:45:21PM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> > > I don't see the printer support module loaded. Would it not be better
> > > to compile the kernel with the parallel port hardware and the printer
> > > support compiled into the kernel?
> >
> > You'd run into problems if you ever want to do PLIP....
>
> Yes, but - in reality - how many people use PLIP? Besides Chris, who used it
> to set up the PLUG laptop. :-)
> I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using it, much less know someone who
> uses it (regularly).
>
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>
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