[NTLK] An emulated Newton is a mighty fine thing

[Frank Lowney]

On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com> wrote:

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> Yes, as I said, the drivers for the Ethernet Card emulation are not entirely working yet.

So, I shouldn't be trying to make it work?

Here's what I've done so far:

Installed "Newton Devices.pkg" from here:
http://www.unna.org/view.php?/drivers/ethernet/ne2k

Installed Newton Internet Enabler 2 from here:
http://www.unna.org/view.php?/apple/software/Internet/NIE2/REGPKGS
- both files

Installed:
http://www.unna.org/view.php?/apple/software/Internet/NIE2/ENETSUP
- enetsup.pkg

Using Internet Setup,  I duplicated the Network settings on my MacOS X 10.8.4 machine hosting this emulation calling it  Home Ethernet Setup and as follows:

Configuration: DHCP Server
Card: PCMCIA Ethernet (tried ethernet combo card too)
Domain name: gcsu.edu

NetHopper didn't like that at all.  Then, I tried:

Configuration: Manual
Card: PCMCIA Ethernet (tried ethernet combo card too)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Local IP Address: 1-.0.1.2
Gateway/Router Address: 10.0.1.1
Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
Domain name: gcsu.edu

NetHopper seemed to like that a little better going through the motions to download a page and returning one line of text from it.  Another page with much simpler code (no javascript etc.) was faithfully reproduced, functional hyperlinks and all.  Perhaps I should be using Newts Cape instead as I understand that it is still being supported.

Doing this has eliminated the error message on startup.  Still, clicking on Network yields: "Sorry, a problem has occurred (-48807)."  I also created a Unix setup that I probably should delete but I cannot figure out how to do that.  


So has this al been an exercise in futility?

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> Your must be searching for NIE 2.0, the Newton Internet Enabler.
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> More details here:
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> http://www.splorp.com/newton/faq/newton-faq-software.html#VD
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> On 07.08.2013, at 15:41, Frank Lowney <frank.lowney at gcsu.edu> wrote:
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>> Yes,on  startup I get "Error! Unable to activate NE2K since Newton Device Drivers are not in the system"  I have downloaded al the relevant files at: http://code.google.com/p/einstein/downloads/list but haven't yet been able to find the internet support file collection.  I can't even find the page describing it.  
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>> A search on "internet" in the Wiki yields only the build instructions for Nokia. Searching for "internet" in the Issues area yields nothing.  The 2007 User Manual contains no reference to this functionality, probably because it predates it. 
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>> On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com> wrote:
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>>> On 06.08.2013, at 00:05, Frank Lowney <frank.lowney at gcsu.edu> wrote:
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>>>> I've been playing around with the latest Newton emulator running under MacOS X 10.8.4.  I have it running and have installed NetHopper hoping to record the screen for an educational project I am working on.  Although I have installed the NE2K.pkg, my NetHopper won't hop onto any address I give it.  
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>>>> So, are there some special tricks that one needs to know about?  
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>>> The network emulation isn't just there yet. You can make it work by installing the entire internet support file collection as described on the GoogleCode page, and then setting the Internet settings to the same IPs and mask of your host machine.
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