Bunsen
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Is this the place I drop the fact/factoid/rumor that the Mac serial ports can take an external clock signal, and run faster than Localtalk? I know the Farallon serial/ethernet adapters do it.
Also, the second hardware serial port is available from the docking connector, yeah?
And:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10004
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10253
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10269
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10808
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822 (versions available with on-PCB antenna or antenna socket)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11049 (bare module version of above)
Seems to me the cleanest thing from a Mac point of view would be something that pretends to be a modem, and squirts Ethernet/WiFi packets out the other end (which, from my reading, some of the above do).
But Trash - you have gotta get it clear in your head that just because something says USB doesn't mean it converts both ways!
Also, the second hardware serial port is available from the docking connector, yeah?
And:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10004
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10253
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10269
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10808
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822 (versions available with on-PCB antenna or antenna socket)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11049 (bare module version of above)
Seems to me the cleanest thing from a Mac point of view would be something that pretends to be a modem, and squirts Ethernet/WiFi packets out the other end (which, from my reading, some of the above do).
AgreedI picked one of these things up because, well, for