Microcontroller communication

I want a microcontroller (Atmega48) to send a network packet to a
computer NIC. What do i need to do to achieve this. The microcontroller
will send a simple 144 byte packet and thats it. I just want to know
how the computer can receive this properly. Do i do it through the
microcontrollers UART? Or?

On 2006-03-20, ahmed.sharifi@gmail.com <ahmed.sharifi@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want a microcontroller (Atmega48) to send a network packet to a
> computer NIC. What do i need to do to achieve this. The microcontroller
> will send a simple 144 byte packet and thats it. I just want to know
> how the computer can receive this properly. Do i do it through the
> microcontrollers UART?

If you add a serial->Ethernet gateway, you could send the data
out through the Atmega48's UART.

> Or?

Or add an Ethernet controller chip and phy.

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On 20 Mar 2006 10:59:49 -0800, "ahmed.sharifi@gmail.com"
<ahmed.sharifi@gmail.com> wrote:

>I want a microcontroller (Atmega48) to send a network packet to a
>computer NIC. What do i need to do to achieve this. The microcontroller
>will send a simple 144 byte packet and thats it. I just want to know
>how the computer can receive this properly. Do i do it through the
>microcontrollers UART? Or?

The easiest would be to use a Wiznet W3100A connected to the Atmega48.
You probably only need to use the IIC bus. (TWI on the ATMega). You
need about 10 lines of code to initialize the W3100A and be able to
send a packet. (Excluding TWI code).

Regards
  Anton Erasmus