The usb stuff requires a daemon and modules to run it; you can't get those loaded until after boot so speakup won't run with it since usb isn't active early enough. I'd say you're screwed :-( Why they have to take serial ports off notebooks altogether is beyond me; they're still more common than usb although intel wants it otherwise. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:14PM +1100, Ben van Poppel wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1710 laptop, and, due to a > gross misunderstanding on my part (being totally out of touch with > laptop developments and ignorant of USB altogether) found out too late > that the thing's got no bloody serial port, only a USB port. I can > still return the thing if all else fails, but has anybody had > experience with USB to serial adaptors under Linux? In particular, has > anybody managed to get serial speech devices talking under either > Emacspeak or Speakup using such an adaptor? > > Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, as I need to work out > whether I should get this box working or swap it. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Ben > -- > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."' > > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302) > > -- > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."' > > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547
