Most motherboards have the serial headers, just not brought out to the back. Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote: > No, you're still not understanding. Debian Wheezy has the 3.2 kernel, so > no serial support. That's why I suggested installing Squeeze and > upgrading to Wheezy. That way you can run the 2.6.32 kernel with newer > packages and still have serial support. No, you won't get most boot > messages with software speech because it takes a while for sound drivers > to load. I have both kernels installed here so I can get hardware speech > if my system becomes unbootable. I had no problem finding a motherboard > with a serial port last August. You have to look for server motherboards, > but they're not that hard to find. > > On 5/15/2013 7:15 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote: > > Thanks for the info on the 3.2 kernels. That, then, is the issue. > > > > RE Debian: Looks like there has been a new release since I last > > looked. Grabbed the Wheezy release and installed on a test system last > > night. Software synth works fine on that machine. No serial port on > > this system to test with DEC. I will see how it does on the main server > > later this week when I can have it down for an extended period. I can > > live with a software synth as long as I can get boot messages, and > > serial ports are getting harder to find on modern mainboards. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/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
