Chances are that there is a serial port on your mother board, but sometimes
the manufacturers don't put a connector from the serial port connector on
the mother board to the back of the computer.
If this is indeed the case, it is also probably disabled in the BIOS.
So you will need a serial connector for the mother board, sometimes it is a
round wire with a 9-pin serial jack for the back of the computer, and a
female plug for the mother board. Sometimes it is not a round cable, but a
narrow ribbon cable, like the one you use on the hard drive, but only about
a half-inch wide.
You could contact the mother board manufacturer for the cable, or if it is a
name-brand computer, maybe they can get the serial connector for you.
HTH.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: Speakup Install options?
Hiya,
Okay, I guess we've pretty much established that a PCI serial adapter
won't work, contrary to what I heard from the hardware guy I talked to. Hm.
What're the odds that my motherboard has a serial port inbuilt into it?
I've had this computer for a couple years. Windows isn't saying anything
about a COM port.
Aside from that, are there any known options for serial communication
which have been tried out and work? If so, what, and if not, what else can
I try?
Thanks much,
Zack.
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