Re: redirecting LPT1 to a USB printer

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Patricia
I've got the book but there is no integrated network that I can see.
You can look it up on their site -- GA-8IP1000 -- to see if I've missed
something.

Best wishes

Paul

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> Paul Breeze wrote:
> > The motherboard is a relatively recent Gigabyte board, but with no
> > integrated network, so far as I can discern. My network adaptors un
> > cp/system/hardware/devices are PPoEWin Miniport which is the broadband
> > software and my Speedtouch USB modem.
> > Under newworks and connections I have a LAN set up but that is the
> > ADSL USB modem again. And no, there is nothing that looks like a
> > phone jack but slightly larger, or if there is I've never noticed.
> Well, anything is possible in this industry, but this is the first
> P4-class mobo I've heard of without a NIC. Do you have the docs (usually
> a single sheet or maybe, if you're lucky, a small booklet) that came
> with the mobo? Should have a map of the board layout, showing which
> headers are for which connectors. When you got broadband, didn't they
> ask if you had a NIC? or was this a special "modem" that incorporated
> the MIC? You don't really need to answer those questions, I'm just
> really, really flummoxed. Gigabyte is a fairly well-thought-of brand
> (not like my old PCHips/ECS bargain-basement board; and that had a NIC
> and an AMR modem). Let me investigate the term Miniport; IIRC that may
> signify some sort of integreated I/O connection that can be used for
> several purposes.