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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:22:11 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: LPT port options

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Ray Davison wrote:

> tell me how to setup LPT2. I put an old serial/parallel card in an ISA slot but it
> conflicted. Also I am about to no longer have machines with ISA slots.
> I have a scanner I would like to put on LPT2. Using it as a pass thru
> sometimes blocks the Linksys control signals.

The actual setup issues for what you have in mind may go a bit beyond my
sphere of competence, but thought I'd mention that some time ago I bought a
SIIG PCI card that has 2 - 4 serial ports on it (I think there is more than one
model of these, and don't recall which one I bought), which will be going into
the next iteration of my system. You disable the ports you don't intend to use,
and choose from various port designations and addressing options for the ones
you do. I think this card is still around, though USB seems to be causing most
things parallel to go away.

On a related subject, the WIN folks are saying that USB 2.0 is going to be great,
and should remove the speed issues associated with USB. (Though maybe not
changing Tony's point about its unreliability for printing & scanning.) If and
when that happens, I hope there will eventually be some OS/2 support for it.

Jordan

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