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Hi, I got direct cable connection working last night between a PC and my 701. In my case I didn't have the relevant protocol (Microsoft IPX/SPX compatible) installed on both machines. Once I did that it all worked (see Control panel, network). I used the shared floppy/printer port on the ThinkPad - no port replicator. have fun, Andrew ---------- From: Maurice klein Gebbinck[SMTP:mauricek@cs.kun.nl] Sent: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 1996 08:00 To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu Cc: Stephen Mosley Subject: Re: Problem with direct cable connection Stephen Mosley wrote: > > I am trying to connect a TP701C to a desktop PC using the Direct Cable > connection feature in Windows 95. Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I > would like to know. You are in luck: I have experimented with the DCC last week and succeeded in establishing a connection. The problem is that there is an IRQ-conflict between the Audio System and the parallel port. A solution is to change the IRQ of the Audio System, see ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/corrective_service/wn95701.txt <<File: wn95701.txt>> For me this did the trick. As someone on this list suggested, I tried setting the IRQ of the floppy/parallel port (stand-alone) to #5. If I hold down f8 while booting Win95 to go to DOS, the BIOS-configuration utility (?) shows the port to have IRQ 5 (and EPP/378), just as selected. If I boot Win95 all the way, the BIOS-configuration utility says the current port setting is IRQ7/ECP/378, although there is no |> sign (indicating that the setting was changed) in front of the IRQ5/EPP/378 setting in the menu where you can alter it. I am wondering whether this is a display error of the BIOS-configuration utility, or that by some magic trick the setting of the port has changed. How is this possible? Does anyone else have this as well? > The configuration I am trying is parallel port to parallel port via a > standard laplink paralell cable. Done it. I can't seem to get it to work after all > the permutations and reconfigurations I could try, I think the problem is > that the TP port replicator uses LPT2 but the printer port on the desktop > is LPT1, According to the standard settings on my computer the floppy/parallel port has address 378 in stand-alone mode, and 278 in multiport mode. The parallel port (multiport) has address 378. In Win95 LPT1 is set at address 378, and LPT2 at 278. Conclusion: when the multiport is attached, its parallel port is LPT1, and the floppy/parallel port is LPT2. but when I try to use the floppy drive port on the TP (with the > parallel port converter attached) this doesn't work either. In theorie, with the multiport attached you should be able to use the floppy/parallel port for a connection on LPT2 without changing the IRQ-settings. Have not tried it yet. Hope this will help, Maurice -- Maurice klein Gebbinck <mauricek@cs.kun.nl> University of Nijmegen, Computing Science Institute Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands Phone +31 24 3652710, Fax +31 24 3553450 http://www.cs.kun.nl/~mauricek