Gus Wirth wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
Karl Cunningham wrote:
You could also just get a dedicated device. There are little embedded
controllers that can do what you want like something from Netburner
<http://www.netburner.com> or JK Microsystems <http://www.jkmicro.com>
Here's one that's even smaller and cheaper:
<http://www.saelig.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ETH004&Category_Code=ETH>
It looks like it could fit in one of those $2 plastic project boxes. I'm
not familiar with the connector though. Nothing that a soldering iron
can't fix.
Gus -
We're using the Netburner device at work but I wanted something cheaper.
This Saelig one is cheaper but I would need two, unless I could figure
out what their protocol is and duplicate it on the CentOS machine.
Saelig has a lot of neat stuff.
I found a Linksys WRT54GL that should work. I didn't realize these kind
of things had serial ports 'till you mentioned it. Looks like all I'd
need is to build a level shifter for the serial ports on the Linksys,
load openwrt, and programs to do each end of the Serial/IP interface,
one for the Linksys and one on the CentOS system where Wine is running.
The software on the Linksys end would feed data back and forth to one of
the serial ports on the Linksys, the software on the other end would
emulate a serial port so Wine could connect to it. Another part of each
software end would need to handle the IP link between them. I have no
idea where to start with software like this, but I'm sure I can learn.
Thinking out loud... On the Linksys end the software would have to be
cross-compiled for the MIPS processor there, yes? It appears I can use a
2.6 kernel since I don't need the wireless to work (wireless on this
model only supported in 2.4 kernel according to openwrt.org).
Any thoughts?
Karl
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