Using serial port

[Vincent Sanders]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:36:41PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> 
> 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

It *might* be possible to write such a driver, trouble is you would have to
find a willing RISC OS hacker who has acess to the DCI4 spec and has the
wilingness to write a driver. Such people are extreamly rare these days.

> 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.

Its not the programming detail so much as finding the people willing to do it
certialy I would not want the job unless i was paid to do it, especialy as 
all the devices ive seen such as the accton etehrports were based on a 8390 
type design which are a pain to write for.

I did get a driver compiled for linux only to discover all 3 acctons I had
have died somewhere along the lines.

If you can find a supplier of reasonably priced devices which have a linux
driver - let me know will you?

Best Regards Vincent