How to connect a serial cable to a parallel port

[miark]

I am running windows 98se and I am trying to connect an external modem to my laptop and all I have is a db25 parallel port (lpt1) but the only connector avaible for the modem is a db9 serial cable I have tried getting a db9 to db25 adaptor but the modem will not accecpt lpt1 for the modem to run off of, is there any way to "trick" windows into thinking that the printer port is a com port or do I need to get a port replacator
Thanks
Miark

 

[MattWray]

I use a USB serial adapter. You can pick one up from CompUSA for 25 bucks. They usually have them associated with the Palms...

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[franklin97355]

I would go with Matt's advice. Serial and parallel are two different protocols and you can't connect one to the other without some sort of circuitry in between. It would be more expensive and more bulky to do that.