instead of the BBA, can we make null modem with a PC Unix box ? 
no ? 

On June 22, 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Matthew Crane wrote:
> > So how immposible would it be to adapt an ethernet card to plug into the
> > dc?
>
>   Instinct says "A PITA but do-able if you have the connector protocol",
> but without the connector protocol, I can't check that :). I've done
> enough driver and hardware work in the past to at least make an educated
> guess about this.
>
>   On the other hand, you could certainy (and easily!) build hubs and PCI
> cards that would let you do networking using the controller port. The wire
> protocol and data protocol for that are beautifully simple. The drawback
> is that you'd be limited to 2 mbits, but this might be tolerable depending
> on your application.
>
>   One of my more amusing fantasies is to wrire up a rack of Dreamcasts in
> hypercube configuration using the controller ports...
>
> Ttyl,
> 				-Christopher Thomas