Re: I/O card vs linux

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sat, 2004-10-16 04:23:43 -0400, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
wrote in message <200410160423.43597.gene.heskett@verizon.net>:
> Greetings;
> 
> This may be OT, but can anyone advise me on a pci card thats basicly 
> an 8255 with a 34 pin or greater port on the card or back panel to 
> bring out all 3 ports, and a suitable linux compatible driver for it?

For input? Output? Both? In the output-only with low "bandwith" being
okay, just think about attaching a number of serial-in-parallel-out
shift registers to your parport. I use something like that for switching
on and off computers...

MfG, JBG

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