[NTLK] NewtsCape over serial connection to OS X

I have the subtle feeling that I am going to provide some pure
amusement to several people. Still I will proceed.

I manage to connect a PowerBook G4 with 10.3.9 to a 2100 either with an
Ethernet cable or with a serial one and a Keyspan adapter. Actually I
have been adopting the Keyspan solution only recently: I think that,
speed apart, it is much more handy and energy-saving so I am trying to
migrate all my Ethernet connectivity solutions to serial.

Now, through Ethernet I can set the PowerBook as server (web sharing
on) and with NewtsCape I can retrieve both packages and html files
(eventually to be saved to Newtworks or as packages). With Ethernet I
set the PowerBook port IP to the usual 192.168.0.1 and I connect though
Dock TCP/IP with the Newton set to 192.168.0.2.

With serial, I have no idea on how to configure the connection; I mean
I have many ideas about it but so far none of them worked. Basically,
when NewtsCape asks for connection, I use an Internet Setup with the
serial port while the PB is supposed to be listening through the serial
port. I have been trying numerous combinations of settings in the
Newton and in the PowerBook (manual/server, various speeds, various
IPs, internet sharing, etc) but NewtsCape always hangs on "NIE
Connecting" without going any further.

As it is clear, I am not very strong on networks in terms of settings,
protocols and hardware and my search on the list did not bring any
satisfactory result.

So: I will highly welcome and appreciate any guidance on the requested
configuration to "use NewtsCape over a serial connection to OS X".

In case all this is obviously and technically not feasible, I hope you
had fun and thanks for informing me on the abyss of my ignorance.

Regards to everybody,

Giulio

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