Re: Obsolete documentation?

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Hi Georg,

Will it connect to SLIP/CSLIP interface as implemented in normal Linux=20
kernel (CONFIG_SLIP)?

Thanksm
Paul

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Georg Potthast wrote:

> I wrote a SLIP documentation which shows how to setup a SLIP connection
> between an ELKS system running in QEMU und the host where QEMU is running=
. You
> could send data from the host to the ELKS system and vice versa. This is =
this
> document:
> elks/Documentation/html/user/setup_slip.html
> To me this seemed easier to set up instead of two ELKS systems connected =
with
> a cross-over serial cable.
>=20
> Georg
>=20
> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- From: Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2020 6:05 PM
> To: Paul Osmialowski ; Derek Johansen
> Cc: ELKS
> Subject: Re: Obsolete documentation?
>=20
> Hello Derek and Paul,
>=20
> ELKS is indeed still SLIP capable :
> https://github.com/elks-org/elks/issues/304
>=20
> One has just to change the command line of 'ktcp' to remove Ethernet and
> put back SLIP.
>=20
> Documentation is quite outdated. Georges made an effort to document
> Ethernet and some other things while debugging networking features, but
> there are still many legacy documents that need to be reorderer and updat=
ed.
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> MFLD
>=20
>=20
> Le 16/02/2020 ? 12:08, Paul Osmialowski a =E9crit :
> > So what happened to SLIP support in ELKS? 8-bit ISA ethernet cards
> > (with RJ-45 connector) are very rare (I have only one of them, work nic=
ely
> > under FreeDOS and in theory it should be supported by ELKS's ne2k drive=
r,
> > but it isn't). Within my one more XT machine to play with ELKS, serial
> > port is the only means of external communication. PPP/IP or SLIP is
> > something ELKS should definitely have IMHO.
> >=20
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >=20
> > On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, Derek Johansen wrote:
> >=20
> > > Does elks/Documentation/text/networking_guide.txt make
> > > elks/Documentation/text/networking.txt obsolete?  The latter in
> > > Section 2 says ELKS only supports SLIP connections.  I don't think
> > > this is still true?
> > >=20
>=20
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