> > also looking into seeing if he can find a way to put in a second serial > > port, as far as I can see it would have to be a PCI type card
Basically, forget it. Benn there, tried that - the cards are rare, cost >$50, and some have some painfully annoying non-standard serial hardware interface so you muck around with setserial for some time (and assuming you know what you're doing). If you get a decent card, it's plug'n'go, but still >$50. For that price you get a whole new PII computer, or just about. > Alan are you SURE that there is not another serial port header on your > motherboard? Most motherboards that support serial have two ports, one > is given a connector on the back of the computer, the other is left as > a set of pins on the motherboard. The BIOS setup often has enable/disable for the second or both serial ports if there are 2; also the BIOS boot messages will list a second pin-header-only port if present. > It is easy enough to connect a little > cable to the headers. As long as you have such a bracket with ribbon cable. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
