Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:16:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Warren Welch <wwlists@intraceptives.com.au>, Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, Ugen Antsilevitch <ugen@xonix.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI modems do not work??? Message-ID: <Pine.GS4.4.10.9909060914140.5512-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <19990906151211.A21968@gurney.reilly.home>
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> And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a > laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected > only by USB... > > http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm That thing looks very simple probably on the USB bus: root hub device hub (internal) externally available 4 ports hub externally available 7 ports hub modem serial port parallel port etc. > Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort > of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards > that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa? PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant, please let me know. USB->SCSI: E-Shuttle from Microtech / Shuttle or in the Iomega Zip drive Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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