Using serial port

[Vincent Sanders]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:21:37PM +0000, Andy Collins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Firstly a bit of an introduction. I'm an old Unix/linux hacker but a real 
> RiscOs newbie. My IBX260 is my first RiscOs machine.
> My interest here is using the IBX as a web browser on my own internal network.
> 
> 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 

hmm depends, if you can find the right serial port drivers (known as block 
drivers in the risc os world) and the ppp module in the bush box will talk
to them, then yesr. You may get milage using an alternate ppp driver that 
presents a dci 4 interface to the internet stack

> 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?

anythings possible, just some things are more practical than others :-)

please let me know the details if you get this working so i can add it to the 
kyllikki site

Best Regards Vincent