[Coco] NitrOS-9 sc6551 driver

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:00 AM 4/3/2009, you wrote:


>I also had bigger probs making it work on linux, the dongles I bought turrned

Just a word thrown in here real quick before people read on.  It 
should be known that there are no known problems with using the 
wireless pak under OS-9/NitrOS-9.
Any problem is probably going to be related to the bluetooth stack on 
the other computer, such as a Linux PC.  That's not an issue with my 
pak.  That's an issue with Linux (or the drivers used).

I was sending text to the PC the minute after I booted with the 6551 
drivers in os9boot.  It was all set to go at 9600 bps by default on 
the pak + the drivers.  Instant match on the first use before the 
user changes anything.  In other words, no tweaking was needed.  I 
popped the cap off the pen and started writing.  :)



>I hacked the address decoding of Rogers pak to put it at $FF64 
>yesterday, used
>Ded to change the address in a copy of t2_sc6551.dd named t3_sc6551.dd, added
>it to the genes.bl and then spent the better part of an hour trying to run

>mb.genes.  We still have the crashing format command in 3.2.8, I think it was

Just to clarify that there's no crashing of my pak.  Gene probably 
means NitrOS-9 3.2.8's FORMAT command?


>So the device name is correct.
>I should turn off the xon/xoff ($offset $2A $2B) in that, it is not 
>being used
>on this end. I haven't tested that yet, but hardware flow control is supposed
>to work.

If you absolutely need CTS/RTS, from the pak's command 
prompt >  type:  set flow hardware
This will persist until you do a hard reset (while powering up), or 
typing >set flow none


>So now I have one less 25' cable to pick up an EMP when mother nature gets
>upset.  That has cost me about a big buck in usb stuffs over the last couple
>of years.

Gene, I'm so glad you were able to get the wireless pak working under 
your Linux and CoCo setup!  For those who are spot reading this and 
are confused, Gene basically has a Lot of stuff connected and my pak 
conflicted with a Tandy pak he didn't want to remove.  So he slid the 
addressing down a few double words by soldering a few wires on the 
pak board.  Now that's a determined CoCoNut. :)

Cheers,
Roger






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