Why does Intel want serial ports off? Is it because their junky CPUs such as the celeron have trouble running them (ha, ha, ha)? Greg ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:20 AM Subject: Re: off topic but urgent > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
