I can't answer the question about the USB driver, but it should not be difficult to find a computer with a serial port on the motherboard. I just bought a new computer with a very nearly state-of-the-art motherboard, that came with a serial port on the motherboard. Laptops might be a different story though, or so I understand. Chuck On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:01:09AM -0600, randy turner wrote: > > hi chuck > i guess if it isn't all ready 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- 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
