Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com>]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:04:07 GMT, NoEmail@NoSpam.NoNet (copper wire)
wrote:

>>If I read your post correctly you are saying that it is possible to
>> write the client software, etc. on the //e and then go online with just a
>> dial-up connection.

>I'll leave someone with more //e Internet access knowledge and programming
>knowledge to answer that one.  It would be cool though, no?

I'll jump in here and say yeah, you probably can.  The Contiki project
shows it's possible.. but you can't "dial in" to an ISP unless they
support only the SLIP protocol; there's no PPP implementation yet..
So the basic route is to have a direct serial connection to a lunix
box that supplies the SLIP connection.   Windows does not support
SLIP, only PPP as far as that is concerned.

>Personally, as soon as client software becomes available to use an Apple
>IIgs and/or IIe to do email and NNTP USENET access (using client software
>on those respective machines over TCP/IP), I'll probably be buying one of
>those Ethernet cards to hook up my Apple IIgs and/or Apple IIe to my cable
>modem.

That's my hope.. I don't have a IIgs (yet) and probably won't get
around to getting one for a little while.  I'd like to work on the IIe
first.  

I have a feeling that the LANceGS card would sell a few more copies if
the IIe had functional ethernet support for accessing the internet or
LAN.

// CHRIS