Re: HELP: Contiki for Apple II sightly held up on networking question

[chris@CosmicWolf.com (Chris Morse)]

On 15 Jul 2003 21:22:05 -0700, andrew.roughan@writeme.com (Roughana)
wrote:

>There are many ways to "network" an Apple II.
>One way of networking is to use TCP/IP.

TCP/IP is a network protocol.. I would have just said that one way to
network an Apple II is to use a serial cable. 

>There is currently no support for TCP/IP on an Apple IIe.
>The Contiki project is a 6502 based TCP/IP implementation that
>includes a PPP interface.

I've been out of it for a while, last time I checked PPP was still in
development.  If it's working now, that would be great!

>The porting of Contiki to the Apple IIe would probably involve
>creating a PPP interface that supported the Apple Super Serial Card or
>some other serial card, or internal modem card. Another option is to
>support the LANceGS card.
>
>Cheers,
>Andrew

Yeah.  The Serial card solution would be the best, as far as it being
the most widely used.  Not many Apple //e folks have a LANceGS card.
I did talk to the creator of the LANceGS card, and despite what it
seems to say on the Web sites, he *did* write drivers for the LANceGS
card for the Apple //e.  The problem is there are no "client" apps to
use it, and he doesn't want to give away the drivers he wrote..

I wanted to start some work on an Apple //c+ I got, but the machine
has a bum internal drive.  Gonna have to find a new one.

Cheers!
// CHRIS