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| - | Do you remember the good old days of dial-up connectivity? Well, back in 80's and 90's, computers connected using a dial-up modem, and the only thing computers needed was a serial COM port for communication, which was included virtually with every computer (USB didn't exist back then!). Nowadays every computer sold has some sort of Wi-fi or Ethernet connectivity, and our old legacy computers are just left to rot! Well, I'm planning on changing that! Why? For fun, of course! :-D | + | Do you remember the early days of Internet and dial-up connectivity? Early computers used to be connected to the Internet using a modem connected to a telephone network, and the only thing computers needed was a serial COM port for communication, which virtually every computer had. Nowadays every computer sold has some sort of Wi-fi or Ethernet connectivity, but our legacy computers are just left to rot offline! Well, I'm planning on changing that! Why? For fun, of course! :-D |
| In this four-part tutorial we will build a Raspberry Pi that will be able to present itself as a serial modem to a client computer which will enable easy connection to Internet using their pre-existing serial port on any Windows 3.1/95/98/Me and any other operating system with built-in support for [[wp>Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]]. In other words we'll use a Raspberry to convert a serial connection to an Ethernet connection. When all is said and done, your old legacy computer will be fooled to think that it's calling an actual [[wp>Internet Service Provider]] and establishing an Internet connection with them! Your Raspberry Pi will just be telling your computer what it wants to hear, and is providing access to the Internet using your pre-existing Internet connection. | In this four-part tutorial we will build a Raspberry Pi that will be able to present itself as a serial modem to a client computer which will enable easy connection to Internet using their pre-existing serial port on any Windows 3.1/95/98/Me and any other operating system with built-in support for [[wp>Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]]. In other words we'll use a Raspberry to convert a serial connection to an Ethernet connection. When all is said and done, your old legacy computer will be fooled to think that it's calling an actual [[wp>Internet Service Provider]] and establishing an Internet connection with them! Your Raspberry Pi will just be telling your computer what it wants to hear, and is providing access to the Internet using your pre-existing Internet connection. | ||
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