Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Greg Mayman wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:21:16 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote: > > >>Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > .... > >>1. The 9600 baud suggestion is not guesswork, it is based on my >>own experiences with 8250/16450 UART's and Arachne. > > > Fair enough. > > But I feel that I have already given OpenDOS a fair and > reasonable test. No matter what variations of the setup I try, it > fails to work properly with Arachne in downloading HTML pages. > > I will concede that I have had no problems at all with OpenDOS in > any other respect. > > But since I decided to use it only for its alleged advantages > with Arachne, and since it hasn't delivered for me, I have > decided not to bother any further. > > >>2. Although your serial cards have their UARTs soldered in, it was >>common practice for serial cards to provide chip sockets for the >>addition of a second serial port to the card. This would typically >>be a 40 pin socket for a UART and two or so smaller sockets for >>1488 and 1489 RS-232 chips. If one of your serial cards has this >>spare capacity, you can put a 16550A UART in the 40 pin socket. > > > If... > > Well, none of my five cards _do_ have those sockets, so that lets > out that possibility. > > Greg > Somehow I feel rich enough, these days, to offer a free internal 33k6 isa modem, equipped with it's own 16550, to be sent right under that gumtree and I'd have made it a surprise if I had the address... Should I? B > > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux -- > > > Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --