Hi, Kirk. Well, I have had some success using a USB convertor so I know it is possible. However, this seams to work only with read hat, and I had to pass specific options to speakup to get it work properly. On 2 Apr 2002, Kirk Reiser wrote: > A usb to serial converter won't do any good for talking to a serial > synth. The reason is that the i/o ports for the uarts are not the > same and we speak to the ports at a very low level. I am trying to > find time to include usb and pcmcia support. > > Kirk > >