[time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Jan 12 09:28:54 UTC 2013
richard at karlquist.com said:
> I have an HP laptop with docking station and the docking station provides
> serial and parallel ports. The question is: are these "real" ports (just
> like built ins) or do they behave as USB dongle versions? One could easily
> imagine that the docking station did nothing more sophisticated that
> emulating a USB dongle, but then again, it does access the docking connector
> so there is some hope it connects directly to the bus.
I'll bet they are real.
You could look in the BIOS and/or count pins on the docking connector.
I have a Dell laptop with a similar setup. Linux thinks they are real. The
serial port is real enough to get good PPS results.
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