I?ve read how it’s possible to use an old serial Wacom tablet with modern motherboards (which don’t have serial ports) by using a simple USB to serial converter which creates a virtual serial port that the OS will find and use.
My question however is regarding an old Wacom (Intuos 2) tablet because it has a power cord that joins at the serial port connector, this is the tablet but the power cord is not visible:
the power cords goes to a normal ac outlt to one side of the serial connector show in the photo.
My fear is, if I use this with a serial_to_usb connector if the motherboard could be damaged. Anybody tried ?
On my current old pc, I use the tablet with Suse with no trouble, I suppose that as far as software goes, as long as Suse finds the serial port, the driver will work, just concerned about plugging it since I’ve never done it. I did read people has used for hand-held scanners.
I?ve read how it’s possible to use an old serial Wacom tablet with
modern motherboards (which don’t have serial ports) by using a simple
USB to serial converter which creates a virtual serial port that the OS
will find and use.
My question however is regarding an old Wacom (Intuos 2) tablet because
it has a power cord that joins at the serial port connector, this is the
tablet but the power cord is not visible:
the power cords goes to a normal ac outlt to one side of the serial
connector show in the photo.
My fear is, if I use this with a serial_to_usb connector if the
motherboard could be damaged. Anybody tried ?
On my current old pc, I use the tablet with Suse with no trouble, I
suppose that as far as software goes, as long as Suse finds the serial
port, the driver will work, just concerned about plugging it since I’ve
never done it. I did read people has used for hand-held scanners.
Hi
Is this a laptop or desktop? If a desktop, does it have PCI-e x1
slots, if so get a serial card (should be less that US$20)?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
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hello, it is a desktop and has PCI-E, motherboard is ASUS X99 Deluxe… aaand… didn’t think of that… thank you, will check it out, that’ll save me several hundreds
