Subject: Re: serial ports
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: Eagle <eagle243@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/05/2002 21:48:51
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 09:47 , Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> At 5:23 PM -0500 2/5/02, Eagle wrote:
>> How can I tell whether my serial ports are working correctly? I have
>> no modem or printer...what I do have is a LocalTalk network to which I
>> am eventually trying to connect...I am working on porting macipgw to
>> be able to route between my ethernet and LocalTalk networks.
>>
>> LocalTalk Bridge works fine in MacOS, but it doesn't give me MacIP
>> routing.
>
> NetBSD cannot do LocalTalk. The serial ports can be used for serial, or
> for SLIP/PPP, but not for AppleTalk. NetAtalk can only be used via the
> Ethernet ports.
Is there anyone working on that? I don't mind learning and doing what I
can to help the NetBSD project.
Eagle