🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Bwwqz3.Iwv@sounds.wa.com> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian  
Willoughby) writes:
> Matthew Dillon writes
> | > Gerben Wierda, wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl writes:
> | >>I am asking this for a friend: Is there a way to attach a set of  
modems
> | >>(>2) to a NeXT? For instance, through a SCSI-extension that supports
> | >>several ttys? This is for the creation of a PPP based small WAN.
> | 
> |     There are also serial port and other products in the general unix
> |     market that drop off the ethernet.
> | 
> |     No limits at all there and very easy to connect up.
> 
> Ok, but how do you get serial port drivers that run on the NeXT to talk  
to  
> these devices?  I admit that I don't have any experience with this.  Do  
the  
> general Unix hardware devices come with standard Unix source code that  
can be  
> compiled on the NeXT?  Or is it even simpler?  Can you just open  
something like  
> /dev/en0/port1 or something else?
> -- 
> Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
> BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
> NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission

Once again, contact UniNet and get a SLAT, now available in 16 and 32 port  
extenders.  This will give you 16-32 additional serial ports.  The  
software installs the additional drivers and will ask you how many of the  
ports are to be used by call unit devices.  The ports or devices work just  
like the current /etc/tty environment.

I was running a Hayes 144 modem on one of my Slat serial ports.  However,  
I did have trouble running UUCP over the port, don't know why since it was  
easier to simply move the fax modem to another machine and move the two  
Hayes modems to serial a and serial b.
-- 
Neil Greene
President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc.
deepthought!neil@ms.uky.edu [NeXTMail]