As I understand things, and my knowledge in linux in general is limited, but it's a problem with loading the dectalk pc drivers in the kernel. To the best of my knowledge no one has built modules for the PC card. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Dectalk internal pc card? > As far as I can tell Speakup can't use the Dectalk PC cards, but Emacspeak > can if you build the Dectalk drivers on the blinux ftp sight. > I'm not an expirt on the Dectalk PC so I don't really know how to direct you > further. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford at acb.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:28 AM > Subject: Dectalk internal pc card? > > > > Well, I have finally decided to take a trip into this brave new world of > > Linux to see what I can do with it. I will be using an old 200 mhz > > computer with a full linux install that has an internal dectalk card which > > I don't think is supported at this point. Does anyone know if it will > > be? The other alternative is to run the redhat Linux that I got off their > > ftp site and burned on to cd's but not sure what to do with it from dos. > on > > my new and very fast computer. I will be getting some help with that > soon. > > > > Any advice for novices? I hope to get good enough with this to run a lan > > with internet connectivity as well. Then if I stay with it, I might even > > learn this pearl language and start programming again. God, what a > thought! > > > > -- Charlie Crawford. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
