On Monday 18 July 2005 15:39, Stephen Reilly wrote:
> On 18/07/05, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 July 2005 14:13, Stephen Reilly wrote:
> > > > i have a new motherboard with the serial ports on the motherboard as
> > > > little 9
> > > > pin headers. anyone know where i can buy a cable so that i can feed
> > > > that out
> > > > through a pci-slot plate?
> > >
> > > You can buy one online here http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=9 It's
> > > called a Serial Port on PCI Backplate.
>> Simon, I'd also like to point out however that you can pick up
> USB/Serial ond PCI/Serial converters an awful lot easier and closer to
> home. Might be a viable alternative considering you're going to be
> using up a PCI slot anyway.
>> Regards,
> Stephen
unfortunately usb-to-serial is inappropriate for the application
i need a serial port for a lirc irblaster (well actually a modded rf2link)
regards
--
simon
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