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Posted by Barry Watzman on August 11, 2005, 4:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options Amazingly, the Dell Inspiron 600m current production laptop has both
serial and parallel ports built-in.
surindersingh@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a laptop with serial and a parallel port which appears
> to be endangered species now a days.
>
> So one option is to use PCMCIA-serial card
>
> I am thinking about buying this one ( it is without serial,parallel
> ports)
> Acer Aspire 5000 ( AMD Turion 64bit with DVDRW )
> http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as5000.htm
>
> I will be using Linux,Solaris ( and never windows ) on the notebook.
> Has anyone used PCMCIA-serial without much trouble on Linux? If yes
> then which brand?
>
> I will be using serial port among other reasons for programming my
> microcontroller programmer boards using GPUTILS (
> http://gputils.sourceforge.net )
>
> second option would be USB<->RS232
> Again has anyone used such devices with Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD?
> If yes which brand/model?
>
> What do I do about parallel port?
>
> Has anyone found any good Docking Station working great on Linux?
>
> Thanks
> - Surinder
>
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