[Coco] Ethernet update

[Mark Marlette]

At 8/26/2004 08:19 AM -0400, you wrote:

James,

Maybe I'm missing something.... If you only connected it to your network 
and FTP'd to it then what is the purpose of connecting it to the CoCo? I 
would think that you would need to make an ethernet adapter and write the 
software to do what you did with your laptop....Which is a HUGE task.

Bit fuzzy on what you did and how that can be mirrored on the coco??? 
Interface The PacketWhacker to the CoCo, you didn't interface the 
PacketWhacker to the laptop???????

????

Regards,

Mark



>On 25-Aug-04, at 11:02 PM, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>>Can you explain how arrived at "and it works" for us?
>
>Yes, I'll do that here. :)
>
>>What is the OS platform?  What software was involved in the "and it 
>>works" part of the test? What protocols are supported, how many sockets?
>
>There is no OS, it's simply the TCP/IP stack and a small sample 
>application. This is compiled for the ATmega8 (although it should work on 
>any AVR with enough IO pins). The test application is a small server that 
>listens on port 1234 and returns the string "ok" whenever it gets input. I 
>put the server on my local network, connected to it from my desktop using 
>telnet, then sent some data.
>
>Parts needed if anyone wants to repeat the test are an:
>
>- AVR processor (such as the ATmega8)
>- EDTP.com PacketWhacker
>- 5V power supply (I use an LM7805A, 4 AA batteries and a 0.47 uF cap)
>- uIP-AVR 0.60.1 (or if you have a 16K flash AVR, you can use the more 
>recent version)
>         available at http://www.laskater.com/projects/uipAVR.htm and 
> written in C
>- 47k pullup resistor on the RESET\ pin
>- AVR programmer
>
>After compiling the uIP-AVR code with avr-gcc, I programmed the chip using 
>an AVRISP (a serial programmer). I needed to massage the code a little to 
>accommodate the small number of IO pins on the chip (the mega8 only has 3 
>IO ports, whereas the AVR used originally had 4), but there are enough 
>pins for the PacketWhacker. I breadboarded the whole thing, took me a bit 
>of time, as I had to strip the ends of the wires too, and cut them to the 
>right length.
>
>Once it was assembled and programmed, it was just a matter of plugging it 
>into my local network and connecting to it. I left the oscillator at the 
>factory defaults, so it was running at 1 MHz.
>
>My next step is to build a prototype card for the CoCo, and make 
>modifications to uIP AVR so that the code will work on the CoCo with my 
>interface. I mainly set up the AVR to test that I assembled the 
>PacketWhacker well, and that I didn't have any really bad solder joints. 
>My soldering is amateur, at best, I guess I just need more practice.
>
>James
>
>
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