- serial port, parallel port required for newer laptops with UNIX
- Posted by surindersingh@yahoo.com on August 9th, 2005
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
- Posted by ross on August 9th, 2005
I run Ubuntu Linux on my IBM Thinkpad T42. Thinkpads are well
supported in the Linux world. The T-series Thinpad has a parallel port
but not an rs232 serial port. FWIW, my Q-Stor PCMCIA-Firewire worked
"out of the box," no config needed.
- Posted by William P. N. Smith on August 9th, 2005
surindersingh@yahoo.com wrote:
What's wrong with the Dell Latitude? My D600 has both, and IIRC so
does the D610...
- Posted by Barry Watzman on August 11th, 2005
Amazingly, the Dell Inspiron 600m current production laptop has both
serial and parallel ports built-in.
surindersingh@yahoo.com wrote:
