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Bobnoxous
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 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: Recommendations for a USB/Parallel cable |
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I've just bought a new laptop. Like many laptops, it doesn't have any parallel or serial ports, which I still need for a few things. I have a USB/serial cable that works fine. Can anyone recommend a USB/parallel adapter (multifunction, single, whatever) that works with linux?
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tam
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Maybe you should think about getting a docking station for your notebook, if you only need the serial and/or parallel ports on a certain place.
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Bobnoxous
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I did get the minidock from Lenovo with the laptop (I hope that works). I need the ports when traveling, though, so I'm looking for a cable-type adapter too.
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joaander
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I've used this adapter on windows and Mac OS X without any problems. The website advertises linux support, but I've never tried it.
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/mpr/homepage.spml
Be warned though! USB->parallel is for parallel PRINTING ONLY! It doesn't map the "bit-flipping" mode that is typically used by non-printer parallel port devices. For instance, the above adapter doesn't work to run the parallel PIC programmer I built. |
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Bobnoxous
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Thanks joaander.
I don't need the parallel port for printing. I need it for an oscilloscope that uses the parallel port to display information the PC. But, this is a windows program which I'll be running via vmware, so I guess I don't need linux support for the parallel port, just windows. It'd be nice to have it as an option in Linux too, but I guess I really don't need it. Who uses the parallel port anymore anyway?
But I do need a true parallel port, not a printer parallel port. Any other suggestions?
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