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Re: Using Linux to get Apples surfing?
- Subject: Re: Using Linux to get Apples surfing?
- From: ben yates <anoneds@netscape.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:28:21 -0400
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:49:04 +0100, Alistair J Ross wrote:
> Hello everyone,
<snip>
>
> Okay, what I'd like to do is to open up one of my Linux boxes serial ports
> and run some sort of serial connection between the Apple and the Linux
> box, so that I can basically access a terminal of the Linux box. I believe
> that the A2 Platinum is an 80-column machine, so the standard 80 column
> PC-type terminal should be OK, yes?
>
> My main purpose in doing this is to run applications on my Linux box such
> as lynx (to surf the web), and mutt (to read my email). Call me crazy but
> I love the idea of being able to do that sorta stuff on an Apple II.
>
> Anyone on this list done anything like that, or know of how it's done on a
> linux box? I would presume it's got something to do with getty or
> something, but I'm guessing.
>
A lot of people use TCPSER for such a connection. I already bought a
Lantronix UDS-10 to put my 99/4A on my hub, and used Win98 Internet
Connection Sharing.
I've since installed Fedora Core Linux on my desktop as my main OS. I
simply had to enable Telnet service, set the ethernet card as a trusted
device (firewall wise), and now I can share it's internet connection (I'm
dial-up, sorry!). I telnet into my Linux box, then use Lynx with an
80-column terminal program to surf the internet... Works pretty well.
Ben