Hans Dumbrajs wrote: > Hi! > Here is all the stufff that you need if you want to connect a win95 (I > dunno if the modem.inf works with win98, but you can try) box to your > linux box with a null modem cable and pppd. > > The modem.inf file attached is not my own work. I just added a line > there to get it running with pppd. Much credit goes to the original > author, but I don't know who he/she is. > The modem.inf file contains 3 drivers. The "Generic NULL modem" driver > is the correct one. > > The perl scribt pppcontrol, and the shell script startppp go into /sbin > on your linux box. > The perl script supplied is acctually not nessecerry. You can equally > well use cron to do what it does. > The "pppcontrol" script is started in one of your rc files with > "/sbin/pppcontrol &". What it does is simply looping forever and > checking that the pppd is running on the linux box. I couldn't get the > persist option working with pppd, if you get it working you don't need > the perl script. > As I said pppcontrol loops all the time and checks every 30 secs if pppd > is running (It assumes /usr/sbin/pppd to be the path). If pppd is not > running anymore it will call startppp to get pppd back up again. The > reason why you need a script to check if pppd is running is simply > because pppd will exit with an LCP config request timeout after a while > because your win95 box is switched of or something. > > You might want to change the network options in startppp to your liking. > > pppd opions: > local Means that you don't use a modem. > noauth is used so you don't have to enter any user name and password on > the win95 maschine. If you want authentication, change it. > nocrtcts disables hardware flow control. > xonxoff enables software flow control > > Configuring the win95 box: > Of course you need to enter all the network options correctly in win95 > dun.. like the IP address. > If you use the noauth option in pppd, it doesn't matter what you enter > as username and password. > As a phone number just enter anything.. I don't remember if you can > leave the field empty or not. Just enter 123. > What I did to get my win95 laptop to automatically log in to my linux > box at startup was this: > There is checkbox somewhere in DUN (don't remeber where) that disables > the confirmation you have to click every time you open a DUN connection. > Check that, and then simply trow a "Shortcut" into you StartMenu\Startup > folder to the DUN connection. > > I hope you can make some sense out of this.. For any clarification > please e-mail me! > Of course you can change as much as you want to my scripts and the rest. > As I said the modem.inf file is acctually not my own work. > Please let me know if you got it working! > > -- > Hans Dumbrajs / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: pppd-dun.zip > pppd-dun.zip Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed) > Encoding: base64
I forgot an important thing: Don't forget to set your serial port on the win95 box to use XON/XOFF!! Otherwise you're get crappy performance. I get about 11k/sec now which is really good for a 115200 serial port.
