StarTech.com PCIe Card with Serial and Parallel Port - PCI Express Combo Adapter Card with 1x DB25 Parallel Port & 1x RS232 Serial Port - Expansion/Controller Card - PCIe Printer Card, TAA

Description

This PCIe Parallel and Serial Combo Card installs into a single PCI-Express x1 slot in your computer, and adds a DB25 IEEE 1284 parallel port and DB9 RS 232 serial port to your system. The PEX1S1P950 is the latest version of our popular PEX1S1P952 combo card. Adds an LPT Parallel Port The controller card features an Asix AX99100 chip and enables you to connect a DB25 device to your desktop computer. The parallel port is ideal for connecting printers, scanners, plotters, point-of-sale terminals, PLCs, scientific sensors, medical equipment or oscilloscopes. The card can also be used in factories, to control or automate equipment. The parallel (LPT) port supports SPP/Byte/Nibble/ECP modes and is compatible with PCI Power Management 1.2 and IEEE 1284 for speeds up to 2.5Mbps. Adds a COM Serial Port The Asix AX99100 chip also enables you to connect a DB9 device using the same controller card, compatible with industry standard 16950 UART. The serial port is ideal for connecting point of sale terminals, serial printers, PLCs, control/automation in factories, scientific sensors, medical equipment, scanners and oscilloscopes. The serial (COM) port supports bi-directional RS232 speeds up to 921.6Kbps per port, available 256 byte FIFO buffer & 9th data bit. The card also features an optional SATA power input that enables you to add power to pin 9 on the serial port, and adjust the power output between 5V and 12V using a jumper on the PCB. Wide Installation Compatibility This add-on card installs in a full/standard-profile PCIe 2.0 x1 slot (backward compatible with PCIe 1.1). For wide platform support the card is compatible with Windows (7 or higher), Windows Server (2003 or higher), and Linux (kernel versions 2.4.x and up - LTS Versions only). PEX1S1P950 is backed by a StarTech.com lifetime warranty with free 24/5 multi-lingual North American based technical support. StarTech.com has been the IT professionals' choice for over 30 years. Review: Not assignable to the ISA bus address space - What they don't tell you about this card is that it is not assignable to the legacy ISA bus address space. Legacy printer ports communicated over ISA bus and had a base IO address of 0x378 or 0x278. Most software designed to use the legacy parallel printer ports are hard coded to use this address space. Thus, these programs will not work with this device. Review: DOES NOT WORK WITH LINUX UBUNTU 20.04 LTS - I got this because it says it runs with linux. Mind you it’s not some odd distro it’s the most common distro on the planet Ubuntu 20.04 LTS So I downloaded the linux driver for the card and the very first step of the instruction for compiling the driver FAILED~!!!!! I called tech support. The guy ended up asking me about my kernel then insisted that my kernel was the wrong and that’s why. I got another tech guy who seemed like he was trying to help but he got hold of the prior transcript and handed me the same mealy mouthed nonsense. So on linux ubuntu 20.04 LTS This CARD IS NO GOOD AT ALL~!!!!! it does work well on a windows OS. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::EDIT::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I updated my kernel NO JOY~!!! So the nonsense they were giving me about the kernel was either gross ignorance or lies I can't say which. But StatTech does not have any cred with me. I won't buy their garbage.