minicom should be able to work with straight serial connections. or at least that's what I think...what you want to do is run minicom -s and tell it to use the serial port you have your box connected to. On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:17:00AM +0300, Sergey Fleytin wrote: > Hello, all. > > I have a question concerning serial installation of linux. I made such > installations several times without any problem, but i had to use > speech enabled windows box as a "talking terminal". My question is, > how can i use speech enabled linux machine for the same purpose? I > tried minicom, but without success. It seems to me that it can work > only with modem. Though i might have missed something? Any suggestions > will be highly appreciated. > > With best regards, > > Sergey. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.