Starband satellite internet

[Gerald Combs]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Brian Densmore wrote:

> You say it has to be configured from Windoze. What about using Wine to
> configure it? Anyone ever used Wine? Is it capable of such things? Could it
> be made to? Should we?

Why not reverse engineer the registration protocol and write a native
Linux/Unix client?  You would need to find a way to capture the USB/serial
data between the Windows PC and the Starband box, but the actual protocol
shouldn't be too complicated.

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> Brian "If I have to see another Window I just may jump thru it!" Densmore
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> > From: Brian Kelsay [mailto:bkelsay at askpioneer.com]
> > Subject: RE: Starband satellite internet
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> > Should have included the direct link, sorry.  It only took 
> > three hours for
> > this post to bounce to me.
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/08/2253216&mode=thread
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