Sharing an internet connection over serial cable

[Cammy]

Hi Ferix, thanks for the quick guide and offer to help! At the moment I don't have a USB-Serial adapter yet, but I'm going to order some from DealExtreme. When they arrive I'd very much like to work out how to do this, mainly so I can get the CD32 online. Hopefully the connection to the net won't be too slow for me to play Dynamite, but I have a feeling it may be. I have Ubuntu on the laptop.

Your site is cute, just like the A600. It was nice to see it loading up from there.

[ferix]

Ubuntu? fine... You're a nice girl
Please, remember you also need a nullmodem cable or adapter. They were easy to find some time ago, but I don't know if they are now.
Regarding to the link speed... I guess the CD32 could deal with a 19200 link, or even a bit more...
Even the A500/A600 can do that if they have real fast ram (same applies to A1000 and A2000).

[jj]

Cut your breakfast on a mirror.
 
Master, master

[ferix]

Taste me you will see
More is all you need
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How I'm killing you
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Well, after this, let's try to maintain this thread on topic

[jj]

Love them, been to see them twice , once in 92 and once in 2007
 
Welcome homke (Sanatariuim) my fav off Master of puppets album

[tone007]

Black Album FTW!

[jj]

No, master of puppets easily their best albumn.  They did go shit with load/reload/st anger, but death magnetic a return to form

[ferix]

No, master of puppets easily their best albumn.  They did go shit with load/reload/st anger, but death magnetic a return to form

Totally agree!!!

[desiv]

...but I'm going to order some from DealExtreme.

On a only semi-related note.  If you're going to order something from DealExtreme, you should pick up one of those $2 USB bluetooth adapters.

Not Amiga specific (at least not that I've come up with yet), but I threw one in my cart when I ordered just recently.  Figured $2, what the heck.

Got it yesterday, plugged it in, XP (Yes, my wife's laptop; she's not converted.. yet) recognized it, loaded drivers and I paired with my phone no problem.

I'm not sure why I'd need more, but the next order I place (come to think of it, I could use a USB-serial adapter.  Mine is OLD), I'll probably grab another. :-)

desiv

[Louis Dias]

What about the old trick of using the old PDA serial-to-ethernet adapter?  I think the PDA was a Palm...

[ferix]

What about the old trick of using the old PDA serial-to-ethernet adapter?  I think the PDA was a Palm...

Hmm... It could be possible... but there are some disavantages.
First, It's a very old piece of hardware, and a rare one too.
Second, I don't know what "language" It talks, but for sure It's not slip or ppp, so you need some kind of proxy software.
The USB to serial approach seems to be the most realistic one. And It works too

[Cammy]

On a only semi-related note.  If you're going to order something from DealExtreme, you should pick up one of those $2 USB bluetooth adapters.

Thanks for the tip, but I wouldn't have a use for it. I don't own any Bluetooth devices, including a phone, which is something I have never used before, and will never own. I will however get a few bits and pieces in the same order, like a USB Ethernet device to use with any Aros PC that doesn't have a supported Ethernet chipset or card in it. I just have to save up a little first before I order this stuff, I'm quite poor.

[mbueler]

No, master of puppets easily their best albumn.  They did go shit with load/reload/st anger, but death magnetic a return to form

I agree,but death magnetic has a very bad sound recording,lars`s druming is so distorded and I would love to smack him over the head with that snare drum of his.

[_ThEcRoW]

Could you be more specific on the setup?. I tried ages ago to set up a slip link between my a1200 and windows pc for internet sharing, but couldn't get it to work. Heck, i managed to get siamese rtg over serial, but never got the internet runnin over serial.

[desiv]

Thanks for the tip, but I wouldn't have a use for it.

No prob...

One of my "possible projects" is networking my Amiga 500 to the internet.
I'll start with straight serial, but I'm considering in the future getting a serial-to-bluetooth adapter so I can do this wirelessly.

Not sure if the $2 bluetooth adapter supports a serial port emulation, and I think the serial-to-bluetooth adapter I'd need on the Amiga side would need "modem emulation" which I believe would up the price.  But I've just started looking into it.

I have heard from someone at amibay that she used a wireless parallel device and parnet on the Amiga side to do something similar.  Would probably be faster, but as an old telco person, I like serial. :-)

desiv

[Cammy]

I received my Serial-to-USB adapters this week, so I'm going to test my A1200 and A600 going online over the null-modem cable using this USB adapter plugged into my Linux laptop. If I'm successful, hopefully the connection will be fast enough for me to run Dynamite online. Does anyone know if a game like this would work on a dialup-speed connection? I made a (crappy) video of Dynamite and AmiNetRadio running on the A1200 030, but it's using a PCMCIA Ethernet card, and YouTube cut the audio out, but you can see the game running here, for those who have no idea what Dynamite is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72NjheWP-A