From: John A (macnut1_at_gawab.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 12:05:02 PDT
On May 21, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>
>
> Hmmm, can't help you with that as I never used Keyspan. Can't you use
> AppleTalk over Ethernet like the majority of other users? Much faster
> than
> serial and the connection can be share by more than one OS and more
> than one
> application. At the price that PCMCIA cards go these days, I can't
> understand why someone would go through the pain of setting up a serial
> connection, specially when the computer doesn't have a built-in serial
> connection...
>
I can think of one reason: before you can use ethernet, you have to
have a way to get the drivers onto the Newt in the first place. For
most folks, that means a serial connection first.
JR
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