Dongle work round

[Keith George]

Hi Guys,

I have a friend who has a software program on his PC that requires a dongle to be inserted into the LPT port. He has had the need to replace his PC with a laptop, the laptop does not have a LPT port therefore he needs some sort of adapter that can be plugged into a USB port.

We did look at USB-To-25-Pin-RS232-DB25-Female-Parallel-Printer-Adapter Cable, but read that this will only work for a printer and will NOT work for a dongle.

The software manufacture say they can supply a new USB dongle, but, that he would have to pay for the complete program to get the dongle, at a cost of £850.

Is there any way around this one?

TIA
Keith

 

[Crusha19]

For $12 I would try something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156005

It says it is for printers only but maybe you would be able to use device manager to map it to an LPT port.

 

[Keith George]

Thanks for your suggestion, but, like the cable I have been looking at, if you read into it it does say not for use with dongles.