[zypher_X]

Hi!

I'm planning to add some costom i/o pinns to my ibook, original 300. The problem is where do i get i/o pinns on a ibook? Ibook has 2 usable ports for this:

the modem internal modem port, I never use the modem anyway, can be wired to the out side but how do I get any info to or from the modem port? To/from software that is.

then there is the usb port. Usb isn't that userfriendly if you would like to connect your own stuff to it.. is there any workaround? like a labcard with usb interface and prewritten drivers.

I think the modem port is the coolest but hardest way. It would be somthing to have a ibook with an external modem port... The usb way is maybe easier but I have not found any such card...

Any help are welcome!

/Zypher

[x user]

If I remember correctly (DONT SHOOT ME IF I DON"T) the orginal iBooks had a spot where you could solder on a Firewire connector. Now you could add that, cut a hole in the plastic, seperate the connector from the interface (if there is one, but my memory says there isn't) and tada, you don't have to mess up your current ports and you have a firewire type connector.

[sine -''-..-]

oh gawd if it were only that easy.

CPU --- Bus --- Firewire port (NO)

CPU --- Bus --- Firewire controller --- Firewire port (moreso yes)

you see, a firewire port needs a firewire controller. both the port and the controller are missing on rev A ibooks. why would they have the controller if they left out the port? blah blah. so no.

[vmarks]

The controller is the Lucent FW401(?) part if i recall correctly. Lucent tells you what discretes you need to solder around the PFY package to make it work- the only think that would keep it from working is frimware.

I almost did this hack to an early ibook.

USB would be easier- use a USB-serial adapter and just with with plain old serial.

[x user]

Well he didn't say he was trying to make a FW port. So I simply assume he could solder on the connector and use that for whatever he was trying to do. Better then messing up the modem port.