Serial/Com/RS-232 on x200?

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Serial/Com/RS-232 on x200?

#1 Post by misiekII » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:56 pm

Hi

Does anyone know if there is such possibility to have REAL 16550 UART com/serial port on X200?
X200 ultrabase doesn't have com (it has almost nothing, anyway), USB<->com gives vary poor rs-232 compatibility, maybe Express Card to com?

With my X60 I used Silicom Double Serial on pcmcia and it worked great.

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Lukasz

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Re: Serial/Com/RS-232 on x200?

#2 Post by g1tigi » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:03 pm

I'm curious about this as well. I'm this [] close to selling my old T30 now that I have a shiny (er..matte) new machine, but I'm finding it hard to give up such legacy things like a serial port and line-in jack--well...esp the serial port.

I suppose you were thinking of something like this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6839150003
(though possibly something a bit less expensive...)

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Re: Serial/Com/RS-232 on x200?

#3 Post by misiekII » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:40 am

Thanks g1tigi.
Delock has similar product.

I've sent question to Siig if it is possible to assign IRQ to their com on express card and if signals from all DB-9 pins are transferred to the system. If the answer is "yes" - it will great and the price is no so important. I'm used to pay much for such things :( My old PCMCIA<->2xCOM cost me ~60$...

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