At 04:29 PM 6/20/97 +0200, Gerd Bavendiek wrote: >recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are >running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). >Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 >sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the >connection between Tower and laptop seems to be down.
It is not the disk, but the laptop going into sleep mode (I believe). Check what IRQ's are able to bring the laptop out of sleep mode again, make sure that /dev/lp? (IRQ 7 / 5, check your config) is one of those devices. Im not quite sure, but try this :) Geir -- \\\|/// Geir Bjune - Student ved IFD,HiBu \\ ~ ~ // http://home.sn.no/home/gbjune ( @ @ ) Women love cats. Men say they love cats, o00o_(_)_o00o but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
