[NTLK] An emulated Newton is a mighty fine thing

[Matthias Melcher]

On 08.08.2013, at 00:58, Frank Lowney <frank.lowney at gcsu.edu> wrote:

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> 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?

Nah, you can try. It's just not simple and easy yet.

> 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
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> 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:
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> 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.  
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> 
> So has this al been an exercise in futility?

OK, NewtonOS is very picky (-48807) about the order in which you install. I installed the following packages in the order given with success. I did reboot after inetstup.pkg and enetsup.pkg and NE2K.pkg. NE2K.pkg *MUST* be the pkg from the Einstein download site. There are unfortunatley other packeges with the same name.

128 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   60184 20 Jun  2010 01.Patch.pkg
624 -rw-r--r--   1 matt  matt  318276 22 Aug  2005 02.inetenbl.pkg
376 -rw-r--r--   1 matt  matt  192156 22 Aug  2005 03.inetstup.pkg
176 -rw-r--r--   1 matt  matt   86316 22 Aug  2005 04.newtdev.pkg
152 -rw-r--r--   1 matt  matt   74888 22 Aug  2005 05.enetsup.pkg
 24 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt    4768  8 Jun  2010 06.NE2K.pkg
 64 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   27752 19 Aug  2006 11.NTox.pkg
112 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   56204 30 Mär  2007 12.ZLib.pkg
 72 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   31940 20 Okt  2007 13.NHttpLib.pkg
128 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   60528 13 Nov  2006 14.Courier.pkg
176 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   84176  6 Nov  2008 21.ICVC.pkg
144 -rw-r--r--@  1 matt  matt   72432 10 Nov  2008 31.Dock_TCP-1.3-en.pkg

The second part was correct: you need to do a manual network setup and use the ip's of the host machine. This is annoying if the ip of the host changes thanks to the router and will be fixed (as soon as I have the DHCP emulation down).

Don;t expect any speed records. Don;t expect to load sites like Google. The NetwonOS browsers can not deal with these newfangled sites. Try to find a site that outputs two or three lines of text, no graphics, nothing, just pure old 1.0 HTML and work your way up from there. 

 - Matthias