USB to LPT

[Guest]

I have a Toshiba satellite A100-233 note book
I want to connect to it an EEPROM, EPROM and a microcontroller programmer
from ELNEC (SMARTPROG)
So I purchase a USB to parallel cable converter, when I connect it, the
windows XP recognize the device automatically as a “USB printing supportâ€
but what I need is a virtual parallel port LPT ( like a virtual serial port
which is worked for me), since the programmer setting only allow me to chose
the parallel LPT port.



Thanks for helping

 

[Malke]

I have a Toshiba satellite A100-233 note book
I want to connect to it an EEPROM, EPROM and a microcontroller
programmer from ELNEC (SMARTPROG)
So I purchase a USB to parallel cable converter, when I connect it,
the windows XP recognize the device automatically as a “USB printing
support†but what I need is a virtual parallel port LPT ( like a
virtual serial port which is worked for me), since the programmer
setting only allow me to chose the parallel LPT port.

I think that instead of using an adapter, you'd be better off with a pc
card parallel port controller:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=laptop+parallel+port+pc+card&btnG=Search

I haven't ever used anything like this so I can't tell you how good they
are.

Malke