macrumpel Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 Hello i have serial devices (plotter, scientific) which are connected to a serial to Ethernet server from moxa. Does anybody know about a open transport extension to allow this kind of connection from the chooser? In Archicad I can directly choose TCP IP as the connection protocol for the serial plotter. But from other software I cannot choose the tcp ip protocol. Open transport gives me Other than the internal printer / modem port, infrared and internal modem for my PowerBook. Was there any software extension to allow what I want? thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dog Cow Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 If the device uses PPP over serial, then you could try MacPPP It works with OpenTransport. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macrumpel Posted January 13 Author Report Share Posted January 13 No, thé devices use normal serial protocole. But I will try MacPPP to see if this can be tweaked. i will let you know. Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macrumpel Posted January 18 Author Report Share Posted January 18 Actually MacPPP does the inverse and allows TCP IP connection over existing serial ports. I need to connect to a serial device over TCP IP by the Ethernet port or whichever port is chosen in the TCP IP control panel. It is like a virtual serial port which is very useful. any ideas? thank you Hubertus Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cheesestraws Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 I'm not sure that any drivers like this exist for general serial use. There is a communication toolbox tool to do it, but that's really aimed at terminal emulators and the like, and you can't just arbitrarily select it as a printer driver, alas. You might have better luck knocking up or finding a dongle based on something like an ESP32, I'm afraid. I'm pretty sure there are howtos out there on the Internet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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