Subject: Re: Coder's Cable and serial connections
To: David W. Robinson <dwrob@gasou.edu>
From: Drew P. Vogel <dvogel@intercarve.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 12/04/2001 00:18:54
http://mc.pp.se/dc/sw.html

Most of the information you need is on (or linked to from) the web page
above. Most notably the serial slave.

--Drew Vogel

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David W. Robinson wrote:

>As far as I can tell (and I have read through the *whole* archive),
>the question has been asked several times, but never answered very
>fully. I see that there was a discussion of SLIP and serial device
>config problems in March of this year. The one thing I don't see there
>  is a correct command to set up the correct serial device (scif0?). I
>can figure out SLIP myself once the hardware is ready.
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>Sorry if I've missed something.
>
>-- David Robinson
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>Drew P. Vogel wrote:
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>> All of this has been discussed in the past on this mailing list.
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>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David W. Robinson wrote:
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>>>With some help from the list, I have NetBSD running now, for the first
>>>time on any machine. I'm impressed by how spare the OS is compared to
>>>Linux.
>>>
>>>However -- I have a coder's cable and I don't know where to start with
>>>it and with NetBSD. So, two things: can someone tell me how to perform
>>>an operation (any operation) using the cable between a DC and a Linux
>>>PC? And can someone tell be how I can set up SLIP (or whatever) to
>>>work over the cable, including how to configure the serial interface?
>>>
>>>I have reason to believe that the cable is OK, since I could at least
>>>make the screen flicker when using it in dclinux (though I had no
>>>further luck than that).
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>-- David Robinson
>>>
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