Hello AmbulatoryCorpse, welcome to the forum.
Thanks much. Glad to make everyones acquaintance.
I always wanted to interact with someone that has more knowledge on OS/2 BBS, since I want to organize the stuff on HobbesArchive:
- http://hobbesarchive.com/?path=%2fpub%2fos2%2fserver%2fbbs
and
- http://hobbesarchive.com/?path=%2fpub%2fos2%2futil%2fBBS
Well I was dos, desqview, win 3.11 and win 95. Licensed and modified WWIV 4.23 - 4.24. Always wanted to try os/2, but couldn't get my youthful hands on a copy at the time.
Looks like a decent challenge - it would be nice to have a proper decent OS/2 BBS scene.
...and even if it is possible document you journey to serial-model BBS in ArcaOS.
I'm terrible about keeping notes - however having an open discussion and solving problems in a forum can definately contribute to having documentation - other peoples documentation efforts for thier BBS projects has informed some of this.
Like Roderick said, type "mode com1" on the command line to see what it shows and let us know.
Well that works in the 4os/2 window, so at least we're seeing that far. Gives me status for the port and lets me change speed, parity, etc.
Your "ThinkCentre M920 Tower" seems to have serial port, and the external USR Sportster 33.6k should work there. It is also interesting that this is the first ArcaOS UEFI installation that I seen with someone trying to make a serial modem to work on it.
Figured it should work, presuming AN has kept the driver stack up well enough. Getting basic WWIV 4.24 up on a physical com port should be easy enough presuming the intervening layers are working. Other things will require fossil support be set up at some layer or other - SIO just bakes it in as it's really built for BBS use.
I do have other modems to hook up and play with, so a multi-port rs232 serial interface is planned, perhaps even a multi modem pcie card.. dunno, very much a for fun project that
mostly gets prodded at night. I would love to have copies of BBS in general, WWIV in specific, file archives - have a few, always open to more.
The fun parts will be getting vmodems working beside the hardware in the multi node setup - since SIO looks abandoned and I don't see any modern replacements available in the os/2 world - though there are plenty on windows now - and figuring out an outbound telnet/rlogin gateway door.