G'day Alex, You might be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays with serial ports! An alternative option would be to use a USB to serial converter. The main question is, I guess, would Speakup be able to use a USB interface even though the converter should by rights show up as a serial port? I haven't tried using USB to serial converters under any of the Linux flavors and probably don't fully understand all the ins and outs, etc -- hence my point here may be a mute one. Cheers. AB -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Saturday, 15 July 2006 4:30 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports Hi All, Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit faster. What current laptops do people here have experience with? My main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find something under $1,000. Any input would be apreciated. -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- dmeggins at aix1.uottawa.ca _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup __________ NOD32 1.1661 (20060714) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
