W2HX- It does have a TCP server built in so you telnet to it. Port defaults to 6400 but you can change it. To the serial side, it appears as a dialup modem is connected. When the you telnet to it, the "phone is ringing" and will it send a "RING" response. You answer it by issuing a "ATA" command or you can enable auto answer (ATS0=1) and it will connect automatically. If you need it to be more transparent to the serial side (i.e. will a "RING" and "CONNECT" message confuse the PDP?) you can turn off responses with ATQ0. It doesn't support the full set of RS-232 signals like DTR, DSR, RI, DCD, etc. I'm not sure if the PDP needs those signals to know there's a device there or not. There are jumpers on the bottom of the WiFi232 for certain RS-232 signals so you can loop those back to the host to get around most requirements. Cheers, -p On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:32 AM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Question on this device... Can it be used to connect to the console port on a machines (ie PDP-8e) and allow me to telnet to the PDP over wifi? Does it have telnet server to serial functionality? Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists. vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Paul Rickards via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 9:33 AM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Paul Rickards Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] WiFi RS-232 Internet Modem
As promised, I'm alerting folks on the list that more WiFi232 modems are available (both assembled and kits).
http://biosrhythm.com/?page_id=1453
I'll announce it later today on Twitter (it will likely sell out shortly after).
Cheers, -p