Like I said in another message, the cable you need is about $4. One end has a female square plug that goes into the motherboard and the other has a DB9 connector attached to a plate that fits into the opening for an expansion slot. If you hadn't already said you have a serail port header on your Asus motherboard, I would have told you that you probably have it. I am not sure Asus makes a motherboard with no serial port at all. But most of them do not have the external DB9 connector. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards > Yes I agree this really is an issue. For some odd reason the Asus system > board I have recently bought seems to have the serial port controller > built in (Windows shows a serial port device in device manager for COM1) > but Asus didn't feel the need to either provide the actual port or the pin > header so I could connect a port to the header should I need it. > > OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this limits > the choice and so if you want certain features you may just have to choose > a system with no serial port. So having support for a serial adapter > (either USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful. > > Michael Whapples > -----Original Message----- > From: D. Curtis Willoughby > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards > > This is getting to be a big problem! > > I have a new computer without a serial port. To use a hardware > synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial > adapter or a PCI-E card. This computer does not have PCI slot(s). > If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed, > serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete. > > I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is > still well not wonderful. I have not been able to establish > whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses > so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect > they cannot. Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it > can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0 > and ttyS1? Would you developers please look at a solution for > this one? Please! > > D. Curtis Willoughby > >> From speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca Mon Jan 23 21:57:14 2012 >> Envelope-to: postman at localhost >> Delivery-date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:57:14 -0700 >> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on >> new-mail2.hypermall.com >> X-Spam-Level: >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled >> version=3.2.1 >> X-Original-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> From: acollins at icsmail.net >> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards >> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 >> X-BeenThere: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 >> List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup.braille.uwo.ca> >> List-Unsubscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/options/speakup>, >> <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=unsubscribe> >> List-Archive: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup> >> List-Post: <mailto:speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> List-Help: <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=help> >> List-Subscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup>, >> <mailto:speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca?subject=subscribe> >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards. >> >> >Hello, >> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a USB to >> >serial >> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use serial >> ports p >> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most interested >> in th >> e PCI-Express adapter cards. >> > >> >Michael Whapples >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
