Re: Getting a Serial Port from a Parallel Port
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Well you also have to take into consideration that their are no
gaurantee's that by using that adpater will it work, because your
trying to make a pararell port act as a serial port. So your pretty
to some degree if it will work or not but try doing a search on
google and see if anyone lese has come across a similar issue.
Alvin
Jude wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Just got a new Windows XP laptop, but it has no serial
> (COM) port. It does have a printer port though. I
> wanted to use a parallel-serial converter when I wish to
> connect to my serial devices (routers, etc).
>
> I bought the DB25 Male -DB9 Male connector as shown here
> (http://www.lastar.net/product.asp?cat_id=806&sku=02450)
> but I can't seem to get WindowsXP HyperTerm (or any
> Terminal program) to recognise the LPT1 port.
>
> How do I get WinXP to see the printer port as a COM port
> without screwing up anything drastic ???
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