On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:17:19 +1100 Russell Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > If you know the motherboard number, look it up on the manufacturers web site.
I spent 3 weeks examining the specs of any and all boards available, so yes I do know the reference of the mother-board I bought ;-) Have the user manual too of course. > They often have a 10-pin header on the motherboard for connecting an rs-232 > connector and parallel port. I do have an internal header for a second serial port, that was one of the reasons I bought this particular board. But I had of course to add a bracket to gete a proper connector, and it so happens that the computer case I bought has a crap "tool-free" system to secure bracket/add-on cards, which means that as soon as I exerce any kind of force on the DB9 socket to try to plug a serial cable.. the bracket gets free and disappears in the computer case... so in practive I can't use my spare serial port. Yes yes yes, had I known about ths issue, I would have bought a different case, but now it's there and I am not going to spend another 100 Euros to so I can accomodate a serial device, when USB ones, which are more convenient to start with (since I have a front USB connector), are available. -- Vince _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
