From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Dec 27 16:35:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26365 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:35:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26360 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA21925; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:34:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA22104; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:34:55 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:34:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199812280034.RAA22104@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two RS-232 ports for notebook In-Reply-To: <199812262149.NAA01423@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <19981226105229.52819@sisis.de> <199812262149.NAA01423@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I've one notebook with a normal RS-232 connector (9-pin) as COM1 > > and an IR as COM2. Are there any PCMCIA cards which just give me the > > possibility to have two normal RS-232 connectors, one as COM1 and the > > other say as COM3? > > Yes. You'll often find them advertised in magazines specialising in > industrial automation or data acquisition; the cards often have two or > four ports onboard. Be prepared to pay through the nose for them. Actually, they aren't that bad. Socket makes one that we've used that's fairly cheap. (Then again, I guess it depends on your idea of what 'pay through the nose is'.) The cheap one we use has 2 serial ports built-in to them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message