[56917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lucking)
Fri Mar 21 17:55:08 2003
From: Michael Lucking <michael@lucking.com>
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:49:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <75634F04BFCFD511BF69009027DC86495C60F7@MAILMAN>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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I have a Dell C400 that has a 9 pin serial.
In the past I have had laptops without serial. Using a USB dongle sucked,=
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fact some laptops did not provide enough power on the USB port while on=20
battery power to make the USB dongle function. Further the USB dongle is =
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another hunk of crap to carry around, and having had to work in cramped=20
spaces, I found the dongle to be too much to deal with at times. For lapt=
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without Serial ports, I have used the "Silicom PCMCIA RS-232 serial port=20
Card" (http://www.silicom.co.il/srs.htm). I still keep one so I have have=
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serial ports on my current laptop.=20
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