Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:47:41 -0500 From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Some answers please? ( serial PCMCIA thoughts )
> > Lastly, rather than taking the Mini port extender with me when we are > out on our motorcycle / camping trips, I thought about using a PCMCIA to > Serial card to provide a COM: port.? Can anyone see any problems with > that? They work great BUT... The mini-replicator screws onto the back of the Libretto, nice and tight. It provides a real DB-9 socket, also something you can screw into. The PCMCIA card almost always presents a flimsy thin cable, easily broken. Plus, the Libretto ( in my experience a L50 which has NO replicator bar, so I am forced to use the PCMCIA serial card ) does NOT like to relinquish its internal serial ports. You can disable COM1 in BIOS, but Windows finds it every time and reactivates it, IN BIOS! L50 has an infrared serial port which flops on COM2 as well. Even if disabled in Device Mangler. So, if your PCMCIA card can be COM3/4 and your device will talk to COM3/4, fine. But you will need a fresh an IRQ because the unused internal serial devices will take theirs anyway. I have a unused COM1, infrared COM2, and a Socket Comunications PCMCIA on COM3/4 but its actual comport and IRQ squish around like jello. I just keep finding where Bill Gates put my COMports today ( "Where do YOU want to go today, little plug-n-play device?" ) Bottom line, if you have a mini-replicator, I suggest you use it. Pres Waterman traveling... much delay in catching messages, sorry if I reply and others have already and I lost many many emails in a crash also! ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
