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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Interfacing sensors to FreeBSD Date: 30 Nov 1996 16:54:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <57pos2$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E1nIsI.6E0.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) wrote: > Does anyone know how to go about interfacing a temperature sensor to > a FreeBSD box, so that I can get a temperature readout displayed? You need some form of an A/D converter. The thing that comes closest to such a task in the PC environment is the game port, but it can only convert resistivity, and its interface inside the machine is fairly ugly (no interrupts possible, and you're responsible to measure the pulse time yourself). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)