Hi, Beth: I don't know about the docking station serial port, but if it registers as /dev/ttyS0, or some such, you should be OK. Of course, you may not know about this until after you've installed Linux on your Thinkpad. I would suggest you can accessibly install FC6 using speech on a second computer, probably your desktop. You need to have both machines connected over tcp/ip networking, and then you can use telnet from the desktop to the Thinkpad to install FC6 on the Thinkpad. Janina PS: Congrats on getting the 60. I'm still using an X31, but I'm a great fan of Thinkpads myself. Beth Hatch writes: > > > Hi everyone, > > I would like to set up a dual boot using Fedora 6 on my brand new > Thinkpad T60P laptop. I already have a Linux desktop computer using the > Speakup modified Fedora 6, Gnome and Orca, etc. Unfortunately, my > Thinkpad doesn't have an onboard serial port built into the system. I > am wondering if Speakup would recognize my Dectalk Express hooked up to > either the docking station, which does have a serial port, or the > serial/parallel port bay adapter that I also purchased for this > computer. The adapter fits into the ultrabay, you remove the DVD drive > and put the adapter into the bay instead. I could probably install > Linux in graphical mode only using Gnome and Orca, but I would like to > have Speakup for use in text mode work and for the flexibility that > having Speakup access would provide for me. Having Speakup available > would of course allow me to install Linux independently, also a very > important factor for me!! I know I can use Speakup with software > synthesizers and speech dispatcher, but I need to get it installed > first.<smile>
