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
>
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