Subject: Re: serial ports
To: Eagle <eagle243@mac.com>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/05/2002 21:57:07
At 9:48 PM -0500 2/5/02, Eagle wrote:
>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.

Not to my knowledge...I think that 230kbps LocalTalk is dead enough. 
Viva La Ethernet! ;-)

Mike
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