[Coco] drivewire serial port progress

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:33 AM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:00:42PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:

>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:54:28PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>> > I think I was using the wrong terms searching Google for Windows PTY

>> > support. I found this this:  http://com0com.sourceforge.net/

>> > which might solve the lack of PTYs in Windows nicely.

>>

>> Yes, this looks like exactly what is needed for Windows.  I stumbled

>> upon that the other day when the question arose, but I didn't put it

>> together then.

>>

>> So it looks like there is a decent solution for all the supported

>> servers! :-)

>

> BTW, unless you really fancy writing your own, the "telnet to the

> coco serial port" part seems to be readily available now that you

> are using a PTY:

>

>        http://ser2net.sourceforge.net/

>

> ser2net is packaged for Fedora (so you don't have to build it).  I have

> no idea about other distros, but I imagine that at least Debian has

> it too...


Cool, I figured a solution for that existed somewhere.  For now I'm
just talking to the PTY with minicom, but direct network access would
be nice.


>

> John

>

> P.S.  I'm pretty sure the "Internet modem" part is available out

> there too, just haven't put a finger on it...


I found commercial programs for this, but nothing open source (yet)..
if you do find something please let me know.  It's not a big deal to
write this part in linux, but a solution for the Windows side would be
especially handy.



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