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- From: tdzubin@cue.bc.ca (Thomas Dzubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Will SLIP/PPP support be available soon?
- Date: 30 Aug 1992 16:14:54 -0500
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- Now that the TCP/IP stuff is available for beta testing using WD (SMC?)
- boards, does anyone know if SLIP/PPP support is being worked on?
-
- One of the nice things about Linux is that it's cheap. (actually, free! :-)
- I would imagine that quite a few people are probably running Linux at home
- like myself and don't have their home wired with 10base2 or 10baseT or
- whatever... (yes, I *know* some of you do). Therefore the Ethernet board
- TCP/IP support is nice, but not useable.
- If SLIP/PPP support was available, this would open up a heck of a lot more
- opportunities for people with 'just' modems.
-
- Is the TCP/IP stuff slated to be included in the next 'standard' Kernel
- release (Linus?).
-
- I notice that my machine has a 16450 instead of the 16550...is this going
- to be a problem when (if?) SLIP becomes available?
-
- Thanks.
- Thomas Dzubin
- tdzubin@cue.bc.ca
-