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Irc, Internet on X68000 using null modem cable
This article is a kind contribution by our forum member Neko68k. Thank you for shedding light on this rather grey area !
First of all you will need to download these:
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Driver | pppxr5.lzh | (PPPX) |
TCP/IP Driver | TCPPACKA.LZH | (INETD) |
RS-232C Driver With Buffer Control and Hardware Flow | TMSIO031.LZH | (TMSIO) |
It might also be useful to install TwentyOne (long file name support) if you haven't already.
- unlzh PPPXR5.lzh
- put PPP.SYS in \SYS
- put PPP.X KILL.X and PPPX.BAT in \BIN
If you install PPP.X anywhere else, be sure to modify the first line of PPPX.BAT to point to that directory.
I found it helpful to add the following line to the end of PPPX.BAT:
inetdconf +dns 192.168.0.1
You have to do this anyway so might as well just make it happen. This is to point at your dns server, I used the IP address of my router.
- unlzh TMSIO031.LZH and put TMSIO.X in \BIN
- unlzh TCPPACKA.LZH and merge the folders it contains with your existing \BIN \ETC and \MAN
- edit \ETC\hosts and \ETC\networks to reflect your actual network. for example:
# # /etc/hosts # 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost 192.168.0.11 x68k x68k
# # - /etc/networks # 127 loopback 192.168.0 private-net
- optionally add this line to \ETC\services, clat asks for it:
irc 6667/tcp
Add to your config.sys the following(RSDRV.SYS comes with human):
PROCESS 16 10 50 DEVICE = \SYS\RSDRV.SYS DEVICE = \SYS\PPP.SYS
Once this is complete plug in your null modem cable and reboot the x68. A wiring diagram for making a null modem cable can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D9_Null_Modem_Wiring.png
On your x68k run PPPX.BAT. On the emulator this throws an error, it can be safely ignored. Once at the ppp> prompt type 'term' and push enter then switch to your Linux box. This also throws a couple errors in emulation and they can also be ignored.
On your Linux machine(I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat) open a terminal. At the prompt type the following where 192.168.0.10 is the host IP, 192.168.0.11 is the x68k IP. It doesn't matter what these are necessarily as long as they dont collide with any other IP addresses on your network. /dev/ttyS0 is your serial port(ttyS0|COM1 ttyS1:COM2 etc):
pppd -detach crtscts lock proxyarp 192.168.0.10:192.168.0.11 /dev/ttyS0 38400
If everything worked you should see something like this:
To test it out try:
ping google.com
and ignore any errors that may occur.
I don't know what web browser is good, Lynx is probably as good as any. I tested VWX and it had serious out of memory problems. I also tested WebXpression, it works but not well. For IRC I recommend clat http://sharl.haun.org/a/x68/clat-beta5.tar.gz. To configure clat, put clat.x somewhere handy and create a file called clatrc in the same folder and fill it in as follows:
SERVER irc.efnet.org NICK yournick MAIL blah@whatever.com NAME whatever USERINFO blahblahblah QUIT yourquitmessage
You have to be in the directory you installed clat.x and clatrc or it will fail to find the clatrc file. I think the docs said there is a way to change that but I didn't follow up on it. If you have TwentyOne you can also call it .clatrc but it doesn't matter.
I didn't test out NFS but it seems pretty straightforward.