[Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

[Mike Hebel]

Can I ask an obvious question here?  Can't you avoid the whole issue by using a USB Ethernet adapter and a cable to the back of the router?  Is the wifi just for portability within the physical space?

(If this was already answered I missed it and apologize.)

--
Mike


"Right then!  This won't be big on dignity!" - The Doctor

> On Oct 2, 2015, at 19:21, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips on networking with my MacBook air. I used to run a virtual VMS system a few years back, but that was on Windows and/or Linux, with access to “real,” ethernet devices.
> I’ve since switched to the wifi-only Macbook Air, and it isn’t cooperating very well. My copy of TCPIP services fails to get a DHCP lease.
> I know that bridging with wifi adaptors is problematic, but I built with the OS X native LibPcap support, and I thought it might help.
> 
> Here is my simh version info
> 
>    Simulator Framework Capabilities:
>        64b data
>        64b addresses
>        Ethernet Packet transport:PCAP:UDP
>        Idle/Throttling support is available
>        Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
>        Asynchronous I/O support
>        FrontPanel API Version 1
>    Host Platform:
>        Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)
>        Simulator Compiled: Sep 30 2015 at 21:53:11
>        Memory Access: Little Endian
>        Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
>        Large File (>2GB) support
>        SDL Video support: No Video Support
>        RegEx support for EXPECT commands
>        OS clock tick size (time taken by msleep(1)): 2ms
>        OS: Darwin Zacharys-MacBook-Air.local 15.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.0.0: Tue Sep 22 20:33:10 PDT 2015; root:xnu-3247.10.11.1.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> 
>        git commit id: c3a879da
> 
> Show xq eth:
> 
> ETH devices:
> eth0    en0                                  (No description available)
> eth1    awdl0                                (No description available)
> eth2    bridge0                              (No description available)
> eth3    en1                                  (No description available)
> eth4    udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support)
> 
> en0 is the wifi adaptor I’m interested in, and bridge0 is an OS X-provided THunderbolt Bridge, which doesn’t seem particularly useful for my purposes.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated. :)
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
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