The interface card has a 25 pin female socket and the scanner has a Centronics connector. I can use the original connecting cable interchangeably with a standard printer cable. The interface card has an I/O address which makes it appear like lpt2 (or lp1) to the OS, and in DOS there is a memory mapped region just above video memory that needs to be shielded from reassignment by emm386. On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote: > The 2+ has a 25-pin port on the interface card but > you can get cables that go from whatever to 25-pin. Does t he scanner have 25-pin female > on the back of it? I have seen cables that go from centronics > to 25-pin no worries in fact I have one hear for my HP 3P. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > I am glad to know DOS runs on your system, John - that meas there has got > > to be a way for it run here, so I will pursue that angle. > > > > Steve - this flat bed scanner is a very old one which requires a > > proprietary interface card. The card looks like a printer port, and the > > connecting cable is a standard printer cable. So a PCI/SCSI card will > > probably not help. I need a new scanner, and if I do that I will probably > > just get on board with the Linux development efforts. But it will all have > > to wait until after the holiday bills come in. > > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (12% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (11% of Full)
