On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:51:28 -0800, <kcbnac at bnac.biz> wrote: > Going to be starting LAN/WAN Protocols in January at college...realized, > my > laptop doesn't have a serial port, like the 'official' laptops most > students > bought through the college. Anybody got experience with USB to Serial > (DB9) Could you use a pcmcia card? - I know my lan/modem pcmcia card shows it's modem port as a serial connection... don't know how to configure it though... > adaptors for managing Cisco routers through either Windows (XP) or Linux? > Can/will have both installed (just reinstalled my laptop last week due to > NTFS/FAT32 bugs...arg) > > I googled for info, found some guys talking about using OSX on a Mac > with Zterm, > and that working. www.compgeeks.com has one, but it says that it > *won't* work > for terminal emulation because it doesn't add a COM port to the system. > So I > need a terminal emulator that will talk through the USB to the adapted > serial. > > If not, I just grab the new laptop we've got. (Not sure on Linux on > that one, > though...day before Thanksgiving CompUSA special) > > Thanks! > > Keith Bachman > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list