Joe Tseng wrote:
I've been asked to look for notebooks for my office that have built-in serial ports. We've already used USB-to-serial adapters and port multipliers with mixed success; we are kind of leery of using PCMCIA serial ports. And we'd like to use these notebooks on the go so docks are out of the question. Can I get the big OEMs to sell me a few of these or am I out of luck with them?
The ASUS have/had them recently, I have a few here. Beware the USB stuff, in general they aren't really RS-232 compliant, the standard calls for +/-12v signalling, and many "serial ports" try to fake it with 0-12v, which really, really, doesn't make it talking to some devices.
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
