[56902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Fri Mar 21 16:42:41 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:35:54 -0500
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@andromedas.com>
In-Reply-To: <42480000.1048282288@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I forgot to cc nanog, but you can pick up USB to Serial adapters. I
just picked up a high speed usb to serial adapter for about $80CDN:
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA19W/
hth.
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 04:31 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote:
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> --On Friday, March 21, 2003 16:46:51 -0500 Drew Weaver
> <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:
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>> Seems like these are all but extinct, but does anyone know of a
>> 'new' notebook that has a serial port built onto it? I've found some
>> that
>> have port replicators, but that can be a pain when you need to serial
>> into a router or some other device. What do you guys use?
> Socketcomm has a PCMCIA serial port card.
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> Not cheap. If you hear of something else, Please let me know.
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> LER
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>> -Drew
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> Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
> Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org
> US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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