Using serial port

[Jonathan Buzzard]

andy.collins@belgravium.com said:
> In the absence of e'net, I'm looking at the serial port. I've found
> Victor's hardware hack and can see how to bring out the serial port
> but can  the std software be made to use this instead of the modem?
> I'd like to  connect the IBX to a serial port of my Linux machine, run
> pppd, and use the  Linux box to generate content for the IBX. The
> Linux side, I think I can  cope with but the IBX?.
>
> Is this possible?

Question does anyone know about parallel port ethernet adaptors under
RISC-OS? How difficult would it be to write such a driver and what
tools would you need? These things where fairly common five years ago,
and some at least are still available and are supported under Linux,
so all the technical details are known.

JAB.

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