For my laptop, I have more pcmcia cards than I have slots to plug them in. You just have to decide which devices you need at a given time. pcmcia cards are hot swapible. Therefore can be swapped in and out at any time. When I need to use my laptop as a speaking terminal, as you, I need 2 serial ports. I just take out my modem or ethernet card and insert my serial card. It works pretty well. Terry -----Original Message----- From: Brent Harding [mailto:bharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 5:07 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: other unix variants and speech, maybe with speakup The trouble becomes, how do I get a second com port put in to my laptop? My one comport I have is used by the dectalk-express, as it's easier to edit files with linux telnet than windows telnet, thus the need for hardware speech. I suppose that I could ftp it down, edit in notepad and upload, but that may not work for everything. Can these systems be made to use the parallel port, as my laptop has nothing reserved for it's use. If they make me use the same machine ass I do for other occations of using the laptop at home, how do I get a third pcmcia slot put in? Mine has a modem and dvd card in already, the dvd can go away because I never use it, but multiple network setups for what I might use at home when dsl comes versus the network at the job being autodetected at boot. According to what I've heard they use one desssktop that has an omniview type thing to switch the machine being controlled by the keyboard monitor, and mouse, but then screen readers and internal synthesizers a re needed on each machine, unless someone has developed network sharing of one synthesizer or a pci or isa A/B switch to go along with it. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
