From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <52f3f3a89088a9cb1791aecced150068@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone awake? In-Reply-To: <3F238F58.7000202@ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-szkyriqwxqwjacvhkhowxaoenv" Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:06:46 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05aa948c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-szkyriqwxqwjacvhkhowxaoenv Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit With much effort, probably. Which side do you want to plug the parallel port into? If its the PC, you're going to have to do your own oversampling of the incoming signal to build characters. You might get away with doing it in a user program if its priority is high enough but I'ld say you'll probably end up writing a driver... --upas-szkyriqwxqwjacvhkhowxaoenv Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Sun Jul 27 03:38:35 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Sun Jul 27 03:38:33 EDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 8882D19C6B; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 1DD1919A7C; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:38:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 70DE219B8C; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.187]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 7EACF19A7C for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:37:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from adsl-68-74-12-68.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net (HELO ameritech.net) (dbailey27@ameritech.net@68.74.12.68 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jul 2003 07:37:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3F238F58.7000202@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Anyone awake? Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:37:44 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Hey all, I went to a computer show tonight and found a MiniDIN8 -> DB25 cable for a Macintosh. Since my partner- in-crime is away mountain climbing, I have no idea how to set this up. Google searches only reveal documentation on setting up serial consoles on the server side, not the client side. I'm planning on using an IBM PC (either plan9 or UNIX) as the terminal. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to set this up? Since the cable is DB25, I'm lookin' at using my parallel port. Is that even possible, to simulate a serial console over the parallel? Or, am I looking at using another adapter to connect the parallel to serial? Thanks, as always, Don http://www.7f.no-ip.com/~north_ --upas-szkyriqwxqwjacvhkhowxaoenv--