Any chance the manufacturer has an approved USB card you can buy? Even if they have to install it, that might be the best option.
What's the device? Intended use? Anything on the serial or parallel ports is going to be slow. It could work for printing, but bitmaps will go slowly. File transfers will be horrible.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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