Dave, I think I have up to 25 Wiznet chips and unpopulated PCB's (SPI interface) unused from an abandoned project. You can have them if it helps. The PCB like all my designs was created using the QL PCBDesign software so it can easily be altered to the QL bus.
On 15 April 2014 22:45:55 BST, Dave Park <d...@sinclairql.com> wrote: >Please add the CP2200 to the list of devices under consideration. > >I did just look it up and it is comparable in features to the CS8900A. >With >a brief search, I might be able to buy CS2200-based ethernet cards and >harvest all the components needed off them quite economically, for >example. > >I am a little disheartened that ethernet on the Qx0 is not used by any >QDOSMSQ* versions. > >Dave > > > > >On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Graeme Gregory <gra...@xora.org.uk> >wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:29:23PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: >> > Wiznet: >> > >> > + TCP/IP included. Implementation of socket API for QL probably >pretty >> easy. >> > + Reliefs slow 68008 main processor. But then I seriously question >what >> > original QL owners are going to do with this thing anyway. >> > - Only 4 parallel connections. That's 4 more than QLs usually have, >> > but still not exactly many. >> > - IPv4 only with no way to upgrade if it is ever deemed necessary. >> > >> > All in all I'd say a real Ethernet chip would be much more >> > future-proof... if you can get the software for it working. >> > >> Of course the W5300 is also a proper ethernet chip as well, linux has >> a driver for it not using the internal stack! >> >> G >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> > > > >-- >Dave Park >Sandy Electronics, LLC >d...@sinclairql.com >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List >http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
