20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
9:39 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
I recently tried a Belkin USB-to-serial and a second brand (Amb-something)
on my Win2000 box in hopes of delivering an extra serial port for
my old Palm III. No go! Both blue-screened when Palm Desktop
tried to access the serial port. I suspect that either my motherboard
USB is blown or the drivers didn't like a dual-processor machine.
Try Keyspan. Depending on what you need, they go reasonably cheaply
on eBay. I've used one to provide VTserver, and have quite a few
friends who use theirs for console access to Sparcs, RS/6000, and Alphas
from portless laptops.
There are PCMCIA to serial adapters, no? And
we'll be able to
insert PCI serial cards as long as PCI is around.
Be very careful - look up some user experiences - with the PCI serial
adapters. Some of them are very Windows-only.
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