no. that port is for doing administration tasks on the router using a terminal. the good routers have multiple interfaces, web, telnet, and serial. On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:14:03AM -0600, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote: > I have a terminal port on my router. It is a 9 pin serial. > Would this work with such a BIOS, or not? It seems to me that there would > be no way for the BIOS to see the router at that point. > Glenn. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 3:55 AM > Subject: Re: Talking bios > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > Well, strikes me that if you own any kind of terminal capable of > communicating at 9600 baud you could take advantage of this sort of access. > This includes > second computers, laptops, other notetakers, and whatever else you may have. > Perhaps it won't benefit everybody, but IMHO, a little access sure as hell > beats > the access we have now., and I'd say access such as this, if it ever was > implemented on a PC bios, would be a damn good start to something long > overdue. > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:39:56 -0500, Allan Shaw wrote: > > > >... but that's not what you indicated. You indicated that you feel that by > >connecting a Braille"n Speak to your system which allows you to access the > >bios makes that bios perfectly accessible. that's only one option, what if > >you don't happen to own a braille'n speak? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP SDK 3.0 > > iQA/AwUBP+lipZXfgIVMPEIbEQJlcwCfT81FryU8tlEG93Xjt3lc4y1reLsAnifH > gGrQe1kg5RSHqJGzOdR2ZWKF > =lvQC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
