rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (03/28/91)
Is there a SL/IP or PPP driver in the current version of Amiga UNIX? What IS the current released version? Will it/they be in version 2.0? Will their be support for dialin/dialout SLIP or PPP? -Rob
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (04/02/91)
> Is there a SL/IP or PPP driver in the current version of Amiga UNIX?
There's an S5R4 version of SLIP in "comp.sources.unix". It claims to be
for S5R4/386, but with any luck neither it nor S5R4/386 are so broken
that it wouldn't work with minimal or no changes (other than changes to
the way you add a new streams module to the kernel - is this a problem,
given the complaints I've seen about not being able to configure kernels
on Amigas?).ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) (04/05/91)
rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > Is there a SL/IP or PPP driver in the current version of Amiga UNIX? No. > What IS the current released version? The latest (and essentially, only) released version of Amiga Unix is version 1.1 (1.0 was identical to Beta3j). I beleive that all machines that shipped with beta versions included a coupon allowing a "free" upgrade to the released software, and people with that coupon can get 1.1 now. > Will it/they be in version 2.0? Will their be support for > dialin/dialout SLIP or PPP? The current 2.0 alpha system includes a simple SLIP driver and programs for starting SLIP on a line. There is no dial-on-demand support, but modem or direct connections can be started up manually. guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: > There's an S5R4 version of SLIP in "comp.sources.unix". It claims to be > for S5R4/386, but with any luck neither it nor S5R4/386 are so broken > that it wouldn't work with minimal or no changes (other than changes to > the way you add a new streams module to the kernel That might be a good thing to try out too. I haven't looked at it very closely, but there is little reason to expect it not to work. > - is this a problem, given the complaints I've seen about not being > able to configure kernels on Amigas?). This is a limitation of version 1, so we'll have to wait for 2.0 for this too. -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@amix.commodore.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, uunet!cbmvax!ditto 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ford@kenobi.commodore.com