[Scottish] modems

[Calum Matheson]

My boss at my last job got a new laptop a few months ago.  He had this
ancient digital camera with a serial connector on it, so went out and
bought an inverter, turned out what he thought was a female serial port
on the back was a VGA connector.  He ended up just buying a new camera.

You could always get a USB to serial thingy, their website claims
sopport is available for Linux, it's probably more expensive than
another modem though :)
http://www.keyspan.com/support/linux/
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=USB-SERIAL-CONV

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:13, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
> hrrrrm. 
> I thought they came standard, and that i had a variation - you have a point
> there.
> Might still try the refund route ... 
> failing that i'll put it on Ebay for ?15 :-)
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Elwell, AD (Andrew)[SMTP:A.D.Elwell@dl.ac.uk]
> > Reply To: 	scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Sent: 	31 January 2003 17:00
> > To: 	'scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk'
> > Subject: 	RE: [Scottish] modems
> > 
> > ahem, at risk of being pedantic..
> > 
> > Does your laptop *have* a serial port on it?
> > 
> > I don't remember you mentioning it was for a laptop - I have had sucess
> > with
> > xircom pcmcia combi cards (NIC+modem) and would recommend them over
> > cheaper
> > ones with dongles that break.
> > 
> > Failing that, looks like you'll need a serial adaptor for your laptop -
> > which isn't cheap. (We ended up with a docking station that had a PCI slot
> > in to add 3 serial inputs to a laptop on a boat)
> > 
> > Serial ports are normally male on the PC's / laptops and come in 9 or 25
> > pin
> > (now rare) varieties
> > 
> > 
> > > Sounds like its been designed for the older large COM ports - 
> > > I had one of
> > > those on my first PC and the modem needed to use it - I 
> > > would've thought it
> > > would've come with a connector for the modem but also on the 
> > > other end one
> > > of both type of COM connector.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Now i just unpacked the thing and $**!(%* the cable ended in 
> > > two female
> > > plugs that don't seem to connect to anything on the back of my laptop
> > > (female 15pin plug, female 25pin plug and 2 usbs).  
> > 
> > external monitor and printer perhaps? not serial...
> > 
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > www.hpcx.ac.uk - our computer IS bigger than yours...
> > 
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