Donald,
If you've got a unix box, you could probably write a wrapper that as soon
as it sees ATDT or AT DT, it waits 1 second, then echoes back CONNECT
56000 and runs PPP. Forget slip. :)
All you need is something that pretends to be a modem. Should be fairly
straight forward to write a shell script or C program to do this and hang
out on a serial port of a unix box.
i.e.
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
PPP="/usr/local/bin/blahppp options"
while /bin/true
do
read X
if [ "$X" == "ATDT" ]; then $PPP; fi
if [ "$X" == "AT DT" ]; then $PPP; fi
done
Where you set your PPP server to run from stdin/out (or tell it the
tty) You might need to put a phone number to dial on the newton, if so
edit the string that says read X
And run the whole wrapper like this: pppwrapper.sh </dev/ttyX >/dev/ttyX &
You might even be able to do this from the Newt side if you can tell the
newt to run a script... then you just set mgetty to put up a login on your
serial port and your newt will login, and run PPP for you, etc...
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> On 05/11/02 12:25, "Donald Wilson" <wdi101_at_stu.wccnet.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm all sorts of question-filled today.
> >
> > I'd like to use my 130 around my house, for email and similar things.
> >
> > I don't have an ethernet card for it, but I had this idea:
> >
> > I can easily run a couple more cat5 wires, or rewire some extra ports in some
> > rooms, and connect it to the *Nix server in the basement via SLIP, but I can't
> > find a Null-Modem driver in
> > NIE.
> >
> > Has there been one written, so I can run SLIP over a null-modem cable?
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