Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Daniel Rozsnyó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Or you can implement PnP over serial port as the mices do :-)
> 
> How does that work?
> 

In short: playing with the signal lines in a described way will force
the device to identify itself (data then goes to pc as 1200-7-n-1)

Here is the full specification:

http://www.osdever.net/documents/PNP-ExternalSerial-v1.00.pdf?the_id=52
(or google for: pnp com enumerator / pnp external com device)

It's a Microsoft spec, supported by Windows OS. To Linux I've found only
reference which states not yet supported:

        http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.4

Daniel.

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