hi chuck i guess if it isn't allready built in speakup just isn't going to see it. so i have two questions for all of you. how far are we from usb support with speakup? and the second question is where can i buy a computer that will work with speakup?? thanks to all randy turner On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Randy, > > I doubt if removing the modem will help. I recently had a computer with > one built-in serial port and a second serial port on a PCI card such as > yours. I wanted to have a refreshable braille display and an external > synthesizer on the box, and the only way to get the synthesizer to be > recognized was to put it on the built-in port. The braille display > worked either way, but the synthesizer only worked on the built-in port. > My guess is that without any built-in serial ports, you can forget about > installing with speakup. > > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (42% of Full) > Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. > But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >