As far as I know, speakup will not work with one of these cards -- sometimes motherboards have a serial port which is not brought out to the back -- maybe you could check and see. Most boards except very new ones had one serial port, but sometimes it is just a header. on Saturday 07/28/2007 Luke Yelavich(themuso at themuso.com) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:58:15PM EST, Zachary Kline wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure the board to do this sort of thing? I'm no > > hardware expert, at all, and it just seems as if I'm at a serious > > disadvantage here. > > PCI is designed to be automatically configured to any available resource > on the machine. No PCI card has any jumpers etc to configure particular > resources. The best you can hope for is for your BIOS to force the > assignment of a particular IRQ to the slot your serial card is in. > However, that doesn't solve the I/O port allocation, and it doesn't work > with systems that use APIC. > - -- > 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGquwijVefwtBjIM4RAkmSAKDwGb7lwMrr7+RjgbYOmc9J4QScXQCfYrs4 > lfibsRpAOoCdGOMueU4lmps= > =0CB/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
