Daniela Engert wrote:

>Hi!
>
>On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:10:58 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:
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>>Another option would be a USB to Serial adapter, but the risk of that 
>>not working under OS/2 - eCS is greater that the PCI card.
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>Actually, there's hardly any risk in using USB-to-serial adapters.
>There are just a few chip manufacturers and AFAIK the current USBSER
>driver handles all of the major ones which covers short of 100% of the
>total world market. I'm not sure about the IBM driver, but at least my
>version has support for the FTDI and Prolific (90% of all gadgets are
>Prolific based because they are so damn cheap) chips built in. IBM has
>got my sources for inclusion.
>
>Ciao,
>  Dani
>
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>Thanks Dani, I stand corrected.
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>
 So that is perhaps your simplest option then Beth ! - simply plug in a 
USB to Serial adapter and connect your device !

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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