Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:34:21 -0500 (EST) From: Mobile Computer <mobile@vta.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA 16550A Serial ( Socket i/o card ) Message-ID: <200012151734.MAA29631@mailhub.vta.com>
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Fri Dec 15 11:59:19 EST 2000 www.socketcom.com ? Yes, I think this is exactly what I am looking for, in a better price range than what I have been seeing from other manufacturers I had been looking at, too. Thanks, Achim. Warner, if your're listening, just in case one of these cards fails to work for me ( obviously prior to any intrusive measures I have planned ), I'll pass it along to you -- feel free to place it way at the bottom of whatever pile - O - cards. For reference, My 2 test laptops are a Toshiba 1695CDT running 3.5 RELEASE PAO, and a crufty old a.out Toshiba 2505 CDS running 2.2.7 RELEASE PAO. Although it is larger than I'd like it to be, my proof of concept box is a $21 tower case containing an Asus P55TP4XE, a modified Comtrol ISA serial card, and about $20 worth of dumpster food, happily booting a suitably mangled circa 2.1.7-SNAP or so kernel. As such, I have a working backup plan securely in place. :^) Guy Boyd reply to: mobile@vta.com ___________________________________________ VTA Inc. / VTA Technologies Atlanta, Georgia PAO since 2.2.7 FreeBSD since 4.4BSD-Lite Release ___________________________________________ >Message-Id: <200012150827.JAA12941@gemini.bnc.net> >X-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.mobile,mpc.lists.freebsd.mobile > >In article <200012122258.RAA18004@mailhub.vta.com> you wrote: >> FYI, the simple goal is to create a passive serial line monitor with a >> laptop, so that I don't have to ship / lug a much larger computer to far - >> away places, to service that Big Metal Thing They Pay Me To Fix. > >Once upon a time I bought a Socket S-I/O for my Newton MP 2100 (as Apple >always forgot to produce the adapters for its second serial port and I >needed a mobile terminal _including_ a keyboard). This card running no >matter which OS is on my notebook. > > >Achim > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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