[Coco] RS232 to WiFi/Ethernet

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Jan 30 20:13:17 EST 2018


> On Jan 30, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes.  "With proper firmware" is the thing.  For whatever reason, this
> proper firmware failed to materialize during the past 6-7 years that
> Drivewire was waiting for it.  There are technical challenges with the size
> of basic ROMs, and the general lack of interest from talented people in
> putting work into extending DOS vs just using OS9 where we already did the
> work.

I was referring to the ESP8266 chip. All I need to know is what the DW packets look like for sockets and translate them to the native IP of the chip. If it is worth doing.

However, much of this is already built in to the various ESP8266 firmware (telnet, etc.) so it might not even be necessary.


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