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Re: USB to Ethernet > with CBUS



Don't know if this is of any help or not.

We have a PACA5500 (PAC USB) situated in the least convenient place the
installers could put it - - behind a rack, about 10 foot off the floor,
surrounded by "stuff" that makes getting a ladder in there damn
near
impossible.

Cheap and cheerful solution that works for us. Plug USB Cable into PAC.
Plug
USB Over CAT5 Extender onto other end of USB Cable.  My PC has a USB over
CAT5 extender plugged into it.  When I need to work on it, I can string a
30M length of cat 5 between the two (out of hours of course, no health and
safety issues guv!), and the PAC pops up first as a USB device, then as a
serial port - much as it would do locally.


If you've got structured cabling, and you can go via a patch panel direct
to
desk (with no thing but cables involved), then that should work too.

Works for me, though I realise it's not *exactly* what you were after.

Rob





2009/12/3 Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx>

>
>
> Ahh, I see. A problem not so much with the bridging device but with
> the features of the Cbus PAC.
>
> Thanks for clarifying.
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Phil Harris
<phil@xxxxxxx<phil%40avaddict.tv>>
> wrote:
> > If there's a host controller attached to the PAC USB port then
the
> > programmable controller side of the PAC is disabled and the PAC
acts as a
> > basic PCI so there's no way to have it permanently connected to
anything
> by
> > USB and still have it function as a PAC...
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> >> Of Tim Hawes
> >> Sent: 03 December 2009 08:07
> >> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] USB to Ethernet > with CBUS
> >>
> >> Not cheap, but one of these might work?
> >> <http://www.bb-
> >>
europe.com/product_family.asp?FamilyId=528&Trail=16&TrailType=Top>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Tim.
>
>



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