Jude, The ports on the backs of your laptops that feel like female DB9 sockets are probably VGA ports rather than female RS232. I have never known a device other than a MODEM or MODEM-like device, such as an external hardware synth like the Apollo to have a female DB9 on it. I have a Dell D630 laptop. This is a 64 bit machine and is built very ruggedly and it has an RS232 port. They are still available as refurbs and I recommend them as Linux workhorses. Mike On 04/11/2014 11:00, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have an amd athelon k8 northbridge processor dual core machine with > 1,000MB of memory on it and a litetalk synthesizer attached to its only > serial port and keying in boot parameters almost as soon as starting the > machine also fails on this hardware. I can't do anything with slackware > on the laptops I have since if those have serial ports, those ports have 9 > holes rather than 9 pins and the litetalk synthesizers do not come with > dual serial plugs one with holes and the other with pins and I don't have > the necessary cable to bend the gender. When I moved out of Maryland I > left too much technology there by other people's choices and where I'm at > now I may be able to shop for technology once in a five year period of > time. Slackware needs to start emulating debian by making a boot beep > happen at the boot prompt on their installation disks otherwise whatever > other hardware I get in the future makes no sense to even consider that > distribution. The company is either unwilling or incapable of getting > their subscription shipping problem straightened out too. > > > > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Twitter: @jdashiel > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
