Alright, someone had mentioned an internal modem, and of course, that is exactly where windows assigned com1. I guess that I could just yank the modem and see if windows will give com1 back to the serial port. -- Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin@Home" < GlennErvin at cableone.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." < speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: can't find serial port > Yes, but if you must wait for someone to read your BIOS, addressing the > issue in windows might allow you to narrow down the problem to be sure that > it is actually disabled in the BIOS. > Glenn.