[Coco] NitrOS-9 sc6551 driver

[Tim Fadden]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009, Roger Taylor wrote:
>   
>> At 01:33 PM 4/3/2009, you wrote:
>>     
>>>> If you absolutely need CTS/RTS, from the pak's command
>>>> prompt >  type:  set flow hardware
>>>> This will persist until you do a hard reset (while powering up), or
>>>> typing >set flow none
>>>>         
>>> But I don't have the command prompt anymore.  The eprom was pulled
>>> while I was
>>> hacking the cs address.  So this will have to be done from a program
>>> I'll have
>>> to write, and which is not yet written.
>>>       
>> SuperComm?  I recall a few other OS-9 terminal programs that should work?
>>
>>     
> I hadn't thought of that, it may well work if it can send the short break (or 
> whatever it takes, I haven't studied the software pdf that much yet) to get it 
> back in command mode.
>
>   
>> Try this as well, but you'll first have to kill the bluetooth
>> connection from the PC.
>>     
>
> And I believe (you clipped my rc.local insertions) that would be the rfcomm 
> command here, using the 'release' syntax since the 'bind' was made from here.
>
> Are you saying that it can't do data while its in the command mode?  There is 
> no data flowing unless I'm working in the minicom terminal AFAIK.  That isn't 
> saying the bt stuff isn't making sure the other guy is still there from time 
> to time, only that I don't know.
>   
>> echo set baud 19200 >/t2
>> xmode /t2 bau=7
>>
>> That should get you rolling at 19200 bps but then you'll have to save
>> the /t2 config, ofcourse.
>>
>>     
>>>> Gene, I'm so glad you were able to get the wireless pak working under
>>>> your Linux and CoCo setup!  For those who are spot reading this and
>>>> are confused, Gene basically has a Lot of stuff connected and my pak
>>>> conflicted with a Tandy pak he didn't want to remove.  So he slid the
>>>> addressing down a few double words by soldering a few wires on the
>>>> pak board.  Now that's a determined CoCoNut. :)
>>>>         
>>> Now who is calling whom a nut? :)  Guilty...
>>>       
>> haha
>>     
>
> Actually, I think we all are, or we wouldn't be keeping the old girl alive.
>
>   
They shoot horses, don't they?

Tim :-)