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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to connect laptop to Unix system via Parallel port Post 302073324 by john202 on Thursday 11th of May 2006 08:55:09 PM
Old 05-11-2006
How to connect laptop to Unix system via Parallel port
Hi,

I have been using a computer to keep track of inventory for my business. I am pretty sure it runs on Unix. In the back of the computer there is some sort of PCI card that has about 8 RJ-11 ports on it. I use that card to connect the Unix system to my 3 VT-220 terminals. I use a simple 6 wire phone cord to connect the terminal to the system, however, when I connect the cord to the terminal, I use an adapter to plug it into that. The only ports on the back of the terminals are 3 parallel ports (atleast that's what they look like), so I use an RJ-11 to DB25 adapter to plug it into one of the three. It works fine, but what I was wondering was if I could simply just take the adapter and plug it into my laptop which runs Windows XP and use an emulation program of some sort. I have tried this before but couldn't really get it to work right. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

trm

TRM(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    TRM(4)

NAME

     trm -- Tekram TRM-S1040 ASIC based PCI SCSI host adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     trm* at pci? dev ? function ?
     scsibus* at trm?

DESCRIPTION

     The trm driver supports PCI SCSI host adapters based on the Tekram TRM-S1040 SCSI ASIC.

HARDWARE

     Supported SCSI controllers include:

	   Tekram DC-315 PCI Ultra SCSI adapter without flash BIOS and internal SCSI connector

	   Tekram DC-315U PCI Ultra SCSI adapter without flash BIOS

	   Tekram DC-395U PCI Ultra SCSI adapter with flash BIOS

	   Tekram DC-395UW PCI Ultra-Wide SCSI adapter with flash BIOS

	   Tekram DC-395F PCI Ultra-Wide SCSI adapter with flash BIOS and 68-pin external SCSI connector

     For Tekram DC-390 PCI SCSI host adapter, use pcscp(4) driver.

     For Tekram DC-310/U and DC-390U/UW/F PCI SCSI host adapters, use siop(4) driver.

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), ch(4), intro(4), pci(4), scsi(4), sd(4), ss(4), st(4), uk(4), scsipi(9)

     http://www.tekram.com/

AUTHORS

     The trm driver was originally written for NetBSD 1.4/i386 by Erich Chen of Tekram Technology, and Rui-Xiang Guo rewrote the driver to use
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BSD
								 November 6, 2001							       BSD
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