[Coco] Serial to Ethernet

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Feb 10 20:23:57 EST 2015


> On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Everything I added to DW (networking, etc) was in hopes we could start
> making software now for hardware that would come in "the future".  Ideally
> you could just change drivers and a program that does Internet stuff via
> Drivewire would do Internet stuff via some hardware solution without
> changes.  Unfortunately since I had no idea what that hardware might look
> like or how it would work, I had to guess a lot.  If the wiznet chips had
> existed then, I would have cloned their API.  I did implement one not very
> different, and also a Hayes AT command API, but it's different enough that
> software would be best redone specifically for the wiznet.  OTOH we still
> don't have any hardware and there's very little software using the DW APIs
> so not a huge deal in any case.

I’ll be getting right on this, soon, Aaron! Is there a tutorial or tech reference on how to write networking modules using /N and such? I can make sure my code matches your existing API.

		— A


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