bush-hacking digest, Vol 1 #44 - 6 msgs

[Matt Evans]

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Theo Markettos wrote:
> [oops, forgot to reply to this bit]
> > Has anyone who knows about Risc-OS managed to make the STB use the spare
> > serial port on the 669 for its modem instead of the internal one?  Is it
> > likely to be possible?
> 
> It should be possible.  You need to tell *pppconnect to use the right
> device in DeviceFS (RO's version of /dev) - do *cat devices: to see what
> devices you have available.  Unfortunately I've failed to get the bush box
> to dial on the command line, otherwise it would be easy to hack.
> 
> (I suppose grepping the ROMs for the pppconnect command might to it...)

I had a fiddle with this last month and it was a pain in the
arse.  Peculiarly, *TYPE devicefs:$.serial1 returned /nothing/ when I sent
data down serial port 1, but returned gibberish (as expected) from the IR
remote via serial2.  (The port physically works, in non-RISC OS land.)
This would've been the perfect solution for me, nevermind all this
modem-modem leased-line stuff :)  *serialinfo also says it's not trying
any hardware handshaking or anything like that.  (though saying and doing
are two diff. things.)  Anyone else tried this?  PPPconnect seems sort-of
easy to point to the right serial port, but again nothing goes over it. 


-Matt 

ps: Lucent modem chip sits on the EASCS chip-select (asserted for
0x08000000 -> 0x08ffffff).  It's a 16550-alike, but think it is
plug-and-pray so ... Presumably it could be set up to a varying address
after 0x08000000?  Naturally one would like a standard one like 0x080003f8
but.... :)  (can I have a flake?)