In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : >>>>> "M" == M Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : M> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ceri Davies : M> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : For that matter, do we still : M> need xten, a user who has been pushed so far : to the edge of : M> obscurity that it's home directory doesn't even exist on a : : M> freshly installed system (and I'm not talking about /nonexistent). : : M> For a long time I was a devender of xten, but my hardware is dead, : M> and the original author, who is my boss, wouldn't morn the passing : M> of it at all... : : Add to that: recent x10 hardware that I've bought has worked with : standard serial w/o special x10 drivers. Simple python (or perl) : scripts reading the serial port are sufficient to talk to it. : : IIRC, the x10 computer interface was $19.95 or so. That might have : included shipping. It's even fully bidirectional.
The drivers in the tree aren't for the serial versions, but these old things that interfaced to the parallel port... I have the newer serial stuff, and it doesn't use the x10 stuff in the tree. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message