JP1 Remotes

qingz wrote:I think you can use a printer port PCI card for desktop or PC card for laptop.

As I said here http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewt ... lel+laptop I don't think you can get functionality with the printer port cards/cables. I think you would need a card or cable that emulates the parallel port with ECP or EPP capabilities. Those aren't cheap, and a new (to you) old laptop with a parallel port would cost you about the same, usually.
Jim

jherrick wrote:

qingz wrote:I think you can use a printer port PCI card for desktop or PC card for laptop.

As I said here http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewt ... lel+laptop I don't think you can get functionality with the printer port cards/cables. I think you would need a card or cable that emulates the parallel port with ECP or EPP capabilities. Those aren't cheap, and a new (to you) old laptop with a parallel port would cost you about the same, usually.
Jim

Does that also go for the PCMCIA cards, or will something like this work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0255115827

IMO, that would work, since CardBus is a sort of extension of the ISA bus in a computer, making anything on it a sort of hardware port.

Thanks for the response. Ive been waiting all day for that.