Nothing new here, I'm sure; I simply was happily reminded of this during research on gaming machine motherboard candidates.
The mobo mfrs seem to disguise the naked (9-pin!) RS232 headers on their boards with names like "COM", "LEGACY", etc. Have a look at your own board's naked headers, if you're wanting to avoid converter-cable problems involving USBx, where x varies from zero to infinity. The header-to-9pin-dogbone-connector ribbon-cable things are available to reach from the header to the card-slot on the case backdrop. Then you can use LP-Bridge to share the port. If you're interested in the research results, email me off-reflector via the ARRL email reflector, thanks. Brgds, Dave, N3HE -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-RS232-ports-on-newest-desktop-computer-motherboards-tp7284396p7284396.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
