[Coco] Ethernet update

[mmarlett at isd.net]

James,

That explains it better. Need more light in your pictures. The description
helps explain your process. This will be a good learning experience for you
in many ways. Keep us posted on this and your GCC port project to the CoCo!

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9


>On 26-Aug-04, at 8:47 AM, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something.... If you only connected it to your 
>> network and FTP'd to it then what is the purpose of connecting it to 
>> the CoCo? I would think that you would need to make an ethernet 
>> adapter and write the software to do what you did with your 
>> laptop....Which is a HUGE task.
>>
>> Bit fuzzy on what you did and how that can be mirrored on the coco??? 
>> Interface The PacketWhacker to the CoCo, you didn't interface the 
>> PacketWhacker to the laptop???????
>
>I made a page which might explain it a little better: 
>http://skwirl.ca/coco/ethernet/
>
>I interfaced the PacketWhacker to an 8-bit AVR, using a port of uIP (a 
>TCP/IP stack designed for microcontrollers). To make it work on the 
>CoCo, I'm going to port uIP to the CoCo, and use the PacketWhacker. So 
>it's not as big a task as it seems, and software is my forte. When I 
>get into a code writing mood, I can write a couple of thousand lines of 
>mostly bug-free (C/C++) code in a day. Porting uIP wont take nearly 
>that much code, since it's mostly all already done.
>
>As is probably apparent by my setup, I've never been a professional in 
>electronics, nor have I had any formal training in it. That's why I'm 
>mostly going with hardware that is known, that works, and that has some 
>drivers written for it already.
>
>James
>
>
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