I finally got my newt 2100 on the Internet without an ethernet card. Heres how:
Most info here is Shamelessly taken from
http://misf67.cern.ch/~reinhold/Newton/newtonlink-doc-en.html
1. set up PPP on the linux box:
#!/bin/sh
# This shell script starts the PPP daemon to connect an Apple Newton MP to a
# Linux workstation.
# Linux-System-IP : 10.0.0.20
# Newton-IP : 10.0.0.5
# Serial device : /dev/ttyS0
# Serial speed : 115200
/usr/sbin/pppd -detach local lock proxyarp 10.0.0.20:10.0.0.5 /dev/ttyS0 115200
try running the command:
/usr/sbin/pppd -detach local lock proxyarp 10.0.0.20:10.0.0.5 /dev/ttyS0 115200
at a shell prompt, If your root this should try to start PPP. If this works you can copy
the above info to a file and place it in a bin directory so you can run it without typing
the command, I run the command "newtppp"
2. Install NIE on your Newton, then start the Internet Setup Utility
and create a new connect script using Generic Setup :
Setup Name : My Linux system
Protocol : PPP
Configuration : Manual
User ID : Your user ID
When closing : disconnect never
Local IP Address : 10.0.0.5
Gateway/Router Address : 10.0.0.20
Primary DNS/Name Server Address : 199.0.0.20 #put a valid DNS server here
Domain Name : Your domain name #NOT NEEDED
Advanced Setting : Serial, 115200-None-1, Hardware Flow Control
Remember : Your Linux system IP from the Newton is now 10.0.0.20 !
Now the next trick is to get IP forwarding working:
enter the following command at a shell prompt:
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
and/or on Red Hat change the line FORWARD_IPV4=no in /etc/sysconfig/network
to FORWARD_IPV4=yes
Now my linux box is on an ethernet attached to the Internet through a Mac as his default
gateway. So the newt sends his IP requests to the linux box, the linux box forwards it to
the default gateway (the MAC), the mac is dialed in to the ISP and forwards the IP request
to the Internet.
This should work without much hassle If just my linux box was dialed in to the Internet
as well.
I set this up in order to make newt books of documentation from the WEB using Newtscape.
So I suck them to my linux box using Pavuk, wget is another web sucker. and download to
the newt and turn them into a package with newtscape.
One wicked handheld, definitely not a PDA.
.John M Dunay
.MPR Technologies, Inc
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