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cnvogelg / plipbox

The plipbox Arduino HW Adapter to bridge Amiga PLIP to Ethernet
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plipbox and Linux on the Amiga #10

Open berlincount opened 5 years ago

berlincount commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I've got AmigaOS with MiamiDX pinging my network happily, but don't know whether it'd be possible to use it under Linux on the Amiga (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt is the Linux side for that) .. do you know whether someone has done that, or whether there are other efforts to do it?

What do you think might additionally be require? .. Linux expects a Point-To-Point connection and I so far can only guess the necessary parameters - I'll have to use the source more I guess.

Thanks for this great device, and thanks in advance for and ideas or pointers!

cnvogelg commented 5 years ago

unfortunately the plipbox and the PLIP Linux driver only share the term PLIP as they transfer IP packets across a parallel link. There the similarities already end... plipbox uses a custom protocol to talk to the microcontroller on the board.

To support this on Linux you have to write a custom driver that implements this protocol.

berlincount commented 5 years ago

sigh by now, I guessed as much.

Is there a protocol documentation, or will I have to extract that from the sourcecode?

cnvogelg commented 5 years ago

use the source :)