(5/58) TTY/SLIP/PPP: Browse with Bobcat on MS-DOS, use mTCP, configure a SLIP connection via Linux
Channel: Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
Date: 2024-04-05

How to establish a Serial Line IP or #SLIP connection via ethersl.com on #MSDOS as packet driver and #slattach on Linux in order to #browse the #WWW on the DOS browser Bobcat is elucidated, with configuration of Bobcat, mTCP, ethersl and the slattach parts, (using, finally Linux‘ wireless connection, but NOT a browser ON Linux, i.e. having Linux merely act as a gateway), along with a delving into the details of the nullmodem connection at 9600 baud between the COM1: RS232 serial port on DOS connecting to a Linux USB serial adapter, appearing as the serial interface /dev/ttyUSB0. It is assumed you have acquired Bobcat as described in the previous video in the TTY/SLIP/PPP series. After this, if you are having a Book 8088 v2 modern MS-DOS laptop and a Linux machine, as well as proper cabling/serial USB adapter as needed, you should be able to get online — as Motoko Kusanagi puts it in "Ghost in the Shell": "The net is truly vast and infinite."