does your serial port work in windows? is it disabled in bios? On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:17:00PM -0500, Kyrath wrote: > Hi, > I've got an old Gateway P2 266 that currently has win98 on it. > It, unfortunately, has embedded video and sound cards. However, I'm not sure that would be the cause of my problems with finding the serial port. > I've tried to redirect output via null modem cable and tried to get it to use the external double talk, but nothing happens. > It will boot into windows, and it does access the floppy, just once, when I type "console=ttyS0" or "speakup_synth=ltlk", but no joy. > I even tried having it look for serial port 2. > Does anyone have any ideas of what's going on or what else I can try? > -- Rob > -- Rob > _______________________________________________ > 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.