I've not had any luck running Speakup over either pcmcia serial, or usb serial adaptors. 've tried several. Good luck. Hope your experience proves successful. Guy Schlosser writes: > I have a question along these same lines. I just got a new dell for > Christmas, but it doesn't have serial ports on it. I went and bought > a PCI card (manhattan) with two serial ports on it. Will I be OK > with this and Linux? Anyone have any experience setting this > up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll probably still roll > with fedora core 6, since I've become used to working with it, > although I've kicked around the idea of giving Ubuntu a spin. Thanks > in advance for the help. > > > Guy > > > At 07:27 PM 12/14/2006, you wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:26:20AM EST, randy turner wrote: > > > hi all > > > does speakup workwith a usb to serial adapter or cable? > > > >No > >- -- > >Luke Yelavich > >GPG key: 0xD06320CE > > (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) > >Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com > >Jabber: themuso at jabber.org.au > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFFgev4jVefwtBjIM4RAtzWAKCEvSEw+Bi3SyZRrqDbpCVyRz6YAACgz1pT > >5sCAdv9szB3zidPpCVyTTlY= > >=FSwI > >-----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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org