There used to be a fair few manufacturers of parallel->ethernet for laptops
before PCMCIA took off. We have a couple here and my old boss used to have
one. However, these were popular when ethernet was fairly new and most
people were on arcnet/token ring so a lot are not ethernet. I don't know if
anyone still makes them. If you have any friends who work for universities
that's probably a good place to ask. That's where I work and we certainly
have a few lying around.

If your REALLY having troubles finding one cheap, contact me and I may be
able to help but be warned I live on the bottom of the world so P&P would be
big.

Another possibility might be AUI. Have no idea what format it is but it
looks like a serial/parallel port. So if you can get your hands on an
AUI->BNC/RJ-45 transceiver (I got one of each for some unknown reason) that
might be a goer. Or of course you could do a SLIP interface ala iPIC Web
server but then you'd need a router (or something) to do SLIP->Ethernet.

Tom.
----- Original Message -----
From: Byron A Jeff <byron@CC.GATECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Car MP3 Player (was Thanks for the Information)
> BTW does anyone know a source of parallel port based Ethernet ports? If I
> keep my current case configuration, that may end up being my ticket for
> getting the unit on the net.
> BAJ