Re: [PLUG] PLUG Wireless/ Co-op?

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Wait... I am confused.

How does and AUI to 10BaseT tranciever help me hook up the ricochet
modem to the sparcs???  (I have several of them actually, because as you
apparently know, many of the older sparcs also have AUI - and some of my
older Macs have AAUI as well).

But... the [newer, "high speed"] ricochet modems come in the following
configurations:

a.) Ricochet GS and Ricochet GT.  These are external jobs that have
built-in Li-Ion batteries.  They can plug into power to run and/or
charge the battery.  They have a connector on the bottom that accepts a
cable.  Two such cables come with them, one is an rs232 cable with a db9
connector on the other end, and one is a USB cable (the more rectangular
type).  An rs422 cable with a mini-din (for mac and sparc) is also
available.  (the main diff. between the GS and GT is that the GS has a
plastic case and the GT has a titanium case).

b.) PCMCIA Cards.  There are two varieties of this, and I only have the
one called "merlin", as the other one apparently doesn't support the
modem emulation mode.

so, to explain more clearly, the (GS and GT) modem has to hook up either
to USB or to serial.  Since the sparcs in question (mainly accellerated
IPX machines) don't have USB, they have to connect via serial.  I found
out the hard way that while the machines are very reliable, the serial
ports on them really suck for anything above 33.6.  

I /could/ get PCMCIA SBUS cards and then get more PCMCIA Ricochet
modems, but the non-pcmcia ones are easier to come by, and have better
hardware otherwise (bigger buffers, etc.). (and I want to save the
pcmcia ones for laptops at the moment).

  -- noah silva 

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 23:09, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:05:59PM -0400, Noah silva wrote:
> > b.) (not so minor) Using the serial port on the older sparcs, it only
> > works up to about 33.6.
> 
> You could always get an AUI-to-10BaseT transceiver; they shouldn't be
> all that much on eBay.  Be sure that you get the kind that have the
> RJ-45 jack and AUI port on opposite ends or that the one you get comes
> with an AUI cable.  You want something like
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2019211293> or
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2018553495> or
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2018927679> instead
> of something like
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2019502672> without
> a cable.
> 
> Actually, though, if you can get ahold of some AUI cables (these are
> probably cheaper than transceivers), I have some of the latter kind that
> I bought without cables, not realizing at the time I needed them.  I
> could sell them to you cheap or trade a couple for a few short AUI
> cables if you're interested.  Mail me off-list if you want to talk about
> this more.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "They that can give up  essential  liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."        -- Benjamin Franklin



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