Don't think it was me talking about pcmcia serial, though I, too, might become a customer for such a thing. I did post about my new-to-me Thinkpad X31 laptop, purchased on Ebay. It, too, has no serial ports. Nor does it have a cd rom. I had been hoping to install using a usb memory stick. This didn't work for me, but I would definitely recommend trying this method first, as it's easier to set up, and it's well supported in Fedora. I ended up using pxe with some serious community help. So, if you need to go that route, I'll put some documentation together. Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I haven't seen anyone mention pcmcia serial ports in this discussion > yet, which you may still be able to get somewhere. In fact, I seem to > recall Janina, or maybe someone else posting on here in a different > thread a few months ago, giving a web site where you can still > purchase those from. > > Greg > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0700, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > That is what I was afraid of. I can probably install Linux just fine with > > minimal sighted assistance since I know the prompts for FC3 and for > > Slackware 10.1 very well. I will probably go ahead with FC3 since that is > > my latest distro to learn adding to Slack and Debian knowledge. > > > > What I wonder then, is if once the laptop is booted and running, if I could > > run speakup modules for speak-out after the USB to serial is connected. I > > know software speech is nice but I still love my good old trusty hardware > > synthesizer. > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCQGP87s9z/XlyUyARArKCAKDNkGMTYUTmebSgAZh+fyLA3lpcmACg2DB9 > ySkRNa9MnZJDqLJA2JJ/Tb4= > =dHyO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
