startech serial card

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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




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