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What are the recommendations for configuring Pukklink (v1.0b) to use a connection to a PC running Linux using the PS2 Ethernet adapter and a crossover cable? All I really need to know are the IP settings I should burn. Everything else works fine.

There are no recommendations really.
You set the IP/Netmask that suits the home-network.
If you use 10.0.0.x for example take an address from that space.

For crossover just take any address for example 10.0.0.1(pc) and 10.0.0.2(ps2) with 255.255.255.0 as netmask.

If you encounter problems with speed play with the duplex settings on your pc, ie setting it explicitly to 100/full duplex.

So far I only know of one who use 10/full since that gave the best result.

The reason for playing with the duplex settings is that the autonegotiation can sometimes fail depending on the network card, where one side thinks its full and the other thinks its half.

I had a lot of issues getting pukklink up and running for myself so hopefully these will help you (credit to |GaRlic| for his help here):

* Make sure your crossover cable actually works. Mine used to be fine and I believed it was ok. I could even sometimes see the ps2 using arp -a using an msdos terminal. Turns out to be faulty. If after you set the IP addresses like blackdroid says and it still doesn't work, try two regular network cables and a switch (hub) to eliminate doubt that your crossover is stuffed.

* When burning the pukklink CD, make sure you can burn the .ISO file using mode2, cdrom xa. Not all burning software does this automatically and it can be hit and miss to force it to do it. Burn to a CDRW and then check the burn to verify it is a mode2 cdrom xa before re-buring with a CD-R. I wasted 7 disks this way.

I actually got it working a few days ago using a regular switch connected to my main router. I also wasted about eight disks burning it, mostly because i kept thinking i needed to change the ipconfig.dat file. It's all good, though.