HI there I am trying to access the computer network at my university via
laptop and a serial cable. Actually it is a cable with serial end for
the laptop and parallel for the socket. THe way it works is that you
have to establish a tcip connection just like a regular dial up with
user name and password but in this case there is no modem to dial out,
the connection has to go straight out the serial COM1 ttys0. Windows and
mac users have a special modem driver to get around that problem that
makes the OS think that there is a modem.
Anyway the key here is that the connection is just like the dialup
except that there is no modem to initiate. Unfortunately noone has
accomplished a connection with Linux yet so for now anyway I'm on my own
to figure it out. I read up a how to on null modems but I'm still
confused any IDeas?? thanks in advance...
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