Laptops with serial ports

Laptops with serial ports

[Tom Moore]

Morning guys,
I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that come with a serial port?
I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm not able to get a serial port.
Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.

Tom

Re: Laptops with serial ports

[Keith Watson]

Tom,

I just bought a Dell D400 that has a serial port. I will list 
here the pros and cons of the system as I have found them.

 The system has a 1.8 Pentium-M processor, it came with 256M ram 
but I upgraded to 768 by adding a 512M module.  It has a 60G HD, 
1 serial port, 1 actual usb and a special dell usb port which has 
power for the external devices, such as the Cd-ROM. The monitor is 
12.1 inches and it's only 3.7 pounds.
The pcmcia is only a type 1, which means that it only takes the 
thin cards and not the thicker type.

The audio chip is an Intel and uses the i8x module under Linux. 
This means that you are going to have to live with single channel 
or semi-multi channel using the aoss stuff.

The modem is a win modem and according to the skuttle butt on the 
web is supported after a fashion, but you have to pay 20 bucks 
for the driver. I forget the name of the project, but a quick 
google could find it.

The Intel wireless B/G is supported by a module which is not yet 
in the kernel, so you will have to rebuild it for each new kernel 
you cook.

All in all this little speed deamon meets all my wants and needs. 
I love the size and weight and would recommend a refurb from dell 
if you are looking. They start at 1700 standard, but I got this 
little baby for 899 off of their refurb site. And it even came 
with a 1 year warranty.

Luck in your search,

Keith

On 07:57 AM, Tom Moore wrote:
> Morning guys,
> I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that come with a serial port?
> I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm not able to get a serial port.
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
> 
> Tom
> 
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Re: Laptops with serial ports

[Reinhard Stebner]

have you loked at any of the dell laptops?


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Tom Moore wrote:

> Morning guys,
> I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that come with a serial port?
> I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm not able to get a serial port.
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
>
> Tom
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Laptops with serial ports

[Sean McMahon]

There's a link on the debian page to vendors that provide laptops with linux.
One of these may be able to help you.  Also, I just baught a del Enspiron 600M.
This has a serial port but look on the linux laptops site for any notes specific
to your distrobution with this moddle.  The modem probably isn't supported and
try to get it with a wireless that is supported if you need wireless.  It was
not cheap though.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Moore" <tom@tomstroubleshooting.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:57 AM
Subject: Laptops with serial ports


> Morning guys,
> I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but
are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that
come with a serial port?
> I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm
not able to get a serial port.
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
>
> Tom
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Laptops with serial ports

[Tom Moore]

Haven't really looked at them yet.
Was first going to ask around and see if people knew of specific models I should look at.

Tom

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:22:31AM -0500, Reinhard Stebner wrote:
> have you loked at any of the dell laptops?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Tom Moore wrote:
> 
> >Morning guys,
> >I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, 
> >but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know 
> >of that come with a serial port?
> >I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> >Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if 
> >I'm not able to get a serial port.
> >Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
> >
> >Tom
> >
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Re: Laptops with serial ports

[David Bruzos]

Hi Tom:
The Dell latitude tipically has a serial port.  They are bigger laptops, so there is room for things like partports and 
serials.  I have a latitude C840 and it has one, I know someone  that has one of the newer latitudes and it has one also...

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:57:24AM -0400, Tom Moore wrote:
> Morning guys,
> I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find, but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know of that come with a serial port?
> I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if I'm not able to get a serial port.
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
> 
> Tom
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Laptops with serial ports

[Laura Eaves]

Hi -- I have 3 laptops, all of which have serial ports, because that's what 
I requested when I called for product info before i ordered them.  If you 
call dell or hp or toshiba or whatever and just ask for models that have 
serial ports they will definitely quote you models and pricing info.  I had 
no trouble, and again, all the companies I talked to had models with serial 
connectors.
Good luck.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Moore" <tom@tomstroubleshooting.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Laptops with serial ports


Haven't really looked at them yet.
Was first going to ask around and see if people knew of specific models I 
should look at.

Tom

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:22:31AM -0500, Reinhard Stebner wrote:
> have you loked at any of the dell laptops?
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Tom Moore wrote:
>
> >Morning guys,
> >I'm in the market for a new laptop and I know this will be hard to find,
> >but are there any laptops out there you guys have experience with or know
> >of that come with a serial port?
> >I'd rather not have to use software speech on a lptop unless I have too.
> >Also this makes it a bit hard to do n install with out speech as well if
> >I'm not able to get a serial port.
> >Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Steve Holmes]

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I don't see why that shouldn't work.  You'd just have to be sure the
device was plugged in before it attempted to load speakup.

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> > My experience with PCMCIA serial ports is that Speakup loads too early. The
> > kernel needs to load socket drivers and card services and such.
> 
> How about compiling speakup as modules, and loading the synth module
> after the pcmcia services are up and running? No, it doesn't mean
> speech right from boot up, but it still does mean being able to use
> your hardware synth if you prefer that over the software synths.
> 
> Greg
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Re: laptops with serial ports

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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 04:20:14PM -0700, Debee Norling wrote:
> My experience with PCMCIA serial ports is that Speakup loads too early. The
> kernel needs to load socket drivers and card services and such.

How about compiling speakup as modules, and loading the synth module
after the pcmcia services are up and running? No, it doesn't mean
speech right from boot up, but it still does mean being able to use
your hardware synth if you prefer that over the software synths.

Greg




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RE: laptops with serial ports

[Debee Norling]

My experience with PCMCIA serial ports is that Speakup loads too early. The
kernel needs to load socket drivers and card services and such.

But what's worked for me is to use BRLTTY on a PCMCIA or USB serial port and
use Speakup on the hardware serial port, if you are lucky enough to have a
laptop with one.

If you don't have a hardware port and your laptop can use a port replicator
or docking station you can sometimes locate one of those on ebay especially
if it isn't a brand-new laptop.  I have a Sony Vaio and a Toshiba Libretto
which don't have serial ports but their docking stations do.

If you don't want to haul around a hefty docking station, then use it for
just installing/troubleshooting; get your software speech working and then
ditch the docking station.

Another trick is to install on a hard drive that's temporarily cabled to a
PC with a serial port. Then install the hard drive in your laptop.  To find
an engineer you trust to do this if you aren't mechanical enough yourself,
make friends with your local ham radio club. Luckily I'm married to an
electrical engineer so moving IDE drives around just goes on the "honey-do"
list.

As for PCMCIA ports they are still around. But you have to google for
surplus computer parts. Here in Silicon Valley I trust Weird Stuff Warehouse
and Surplus Computers -- both stores do worldwide web sales. They're also
good places for docking stations, but when you buy a surplus peripheral, do
your homework and be sure you know the exact part/model number.

--Debee
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is to go to  all the trouble of actually doing it.
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Prokop]

* John Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I couldn't get grml 0.7 to speak with a doubletalk LE on a dell 620. But 
> 0.6 worked fine.  Lots of other things didn't work in 0.6 because of 
> marginal support in 0.6 for some of the new hardware in dell's 620s.

> I'm really in a fix here,If I have to install Windows on one of these 
> 620s I don't think I could do it. I've been able to install linux via a 
> serial console But I haven't found a live CD that works.
>   I either have no speech or the drivers are too old.

Just send me a short personal mail and I'll give you access to the
current develrelease of grml featuring kernel 2.6.17-grml so you
could give it a try.

HTH && regards,
-mika-
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[John Heim]

I couldn't get grml 0.7 to speak with a doubletalk LE on a dell 620. But 
0.6 worked fine.  Lots of other things didn't work in 0.6 because of 
marginal support in 0.6 for some of the new hardware in dell's 620s.


I'm really in a fix here,If I have to install Windows on one of these 
620s I don't think I could do it. I've been able to install linux via a 
serial console But I haven't found a live CD that works.
  I either have no speech or the drivers are too old.

Alex Snow wrote:
> I've had nothing but trouble with grml...booted it up with software 
> speech on my old dell laptop and another slightly newer inspiron and 
> the sound drivers were pretty much broken (speech worked, but every 
> few words I'd hear a loud crackling noise).  Also tried booting it on 
> a compaq proliant and got a kernel panic saying htere was no root 
> device.  Booting it up on my athlon box gave no speech at all even 
> though both the onboard sound and second pci soundcard are supported 
> by linux.
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Michael Whapples 
> wrote:
>> The messages I read on this list before about GRML seemed to say that GRML 
>> contains software speech, so the actual installation is spoken using 
>> software speech (if you are installing a distro with it). Admittedly if you 
>> want something that automatically provides software speech without needing 
>> to issue any bash commands, then oralux is the one, as GRML you need to 
>> start speechd-up as I remember. Suppose if you felt like it, you could 
>> modify GRML to contain a script to start speechd-up though.
>>
>> From
>> Michael Whapples
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dart Vader" <ak47.ataka@gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> GRML can be found at www.grml.org
>>> Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try.
>>> Thanx a lot, Michael.
>>>
>>>> Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software
>>>> speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are
>>>> slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby.
>>> My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do
>>> knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script
>>> and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true
>>> installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But
>>> I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using
>>> software speech.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention.
>>> WBR, Roman
>>> out
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't 
>>> think
>>> that this is coincidence.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>> From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader"
>>>> <ak47.ataka@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for
>>>> Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>>>
>>>>>  Hi, Michael.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image)
>>>>> about GRML or similar things.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Prokop]

* Alex Snow <alex_snow@gmx.net> wrote:

> I've had nothing but trouble with grml...booted it up with software 
> speech on my old dell laptop and another slightly newer inspiron and 
> the sound drivers were pretty much broken (speech worked, but every 
> few words I'd hear a loud crackling noise).  Also tried booting it on 
> a compaq proliant and got a kernel panic saying htere was no root 
> device.  Booting it up on my athlon box gave no speech at all even 
> though both the onboard sound and second pci soundcard are supported 
> by linux.

I'd be glad if you could send bug reports to us (the grml-team). If
you don't report them we don't have a chance to fix them. ;)
See http://grml.org/bugs/ for further information regarding
bug-reporting.

thx && regards,
-mika-
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Alex Snow]

I've had nothing but trouble with grml...booted it up with software 
speech on my old dell laptop and another slightly newer inspiron and 
the sound drivers were pretty much broken (speech worked, but every 
few words I'd hear a loud crackling noise).  Also tried booting it on 
a compaq proliant and got a kernel panic saying htere was no root 
device.  Booting it up on my athlon box gave no speech at all even 
though both the onboard sound and second pci soundcard are supported 
by linux.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Michael Whapples 
wrote:
> The messages I read on this list before about GRML seemed to say that GRML 
> contains software speech, so the actual installation is spoken using 
> software speech (if you are installing a distro with it). Admittedly if you 
> want something that automatically provides software speech without needing 
> to issue any bash commands, then oralux is the one, as GRML you need to 
> start speechd-up as I remember. Suppose if you felt like it, you could 
> modify GRML to contain a script to start speechd-up though.
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dart Vader" <ak47.ataka@gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:11 AM
> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:
> >
> > > GRML can be found at www.grml.org
> >
> > Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try.
> > Thanx a lot, Michael.
> >
> > > Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software
> > > speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are
> > > slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby.
> >
> > My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do
> > knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script
> > and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true
> > installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But
> > I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using
> > software speech.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your attention.
> > WBR, Roman
> > out
> > ---
> >
> > Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't 
> > think
> > that this is coincidence.
> >
> > ---
> >
> >
> > > From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader"
> > > <ak47.ataka@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for
> > > Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
> > > Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
> >
> >
> >>>  Hi, Michael.
> >>>
> >>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image)
> >>> about GRML or similar things.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Whapples]

The messages I read on this list before about GRML seemed to say that GRML 
contains software speech, so the actual installation is spoken using 
software speech (if you are installing a distro with it). Admittedly if you 
want something that automatically provides software speech without needing 
to issue any bash commands, then oralux is the one, as GRML you need to 
start speechd-up as I remember. Suppose if you felt like it, you could 
modify GRML to contain a script to start speechd-up though.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dart Vader" <ak47.ataka@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports


>
> Hi.
>
> Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:
>
> > GRML can be found at www.grml.org
>
> Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try.
> Thanx a lot, Michael.
>
> > Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software
> > speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are
> > slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby.
>
> My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do
> knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script
> and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true
> installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But
> I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using
> software speech.
>
>
> Thanks for your attention.
> WBR, Roman
> out
> ---
>
> Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't 
> think
> that this is coincidence.
>
> ---
>
>
> > From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader"
> > <ak47.ataka@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for
> > Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>
>
>>>  Hi, Michael.
>>>
>>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image)
>>> about GRML or similar things.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Dart Vader]

Hi.

Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:

 > GRML can be found at www.grml.org

Shame on me. I should guess it or at least try.
Thanx a lot, Michael.

 > Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software
 > speech output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are
 > slightly different, to simplify linux for the newby.

My first steps were with this distro. Although it offers to do
knoppix-like installation, I slightly modified an installation script
and did debian-like installation. But this installation is not very true
installation, it better looks like simple copying of working system. But
I believe, it is the only way to do the linux installation using
software speech.


Thanks for your attention.
WBR, Roman
out
---

Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think 
that this is coincidence.

---


 > From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dart Vader"
 > <ak47.ataka@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for
 > Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
 > Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports


>>  Hi, Michael.
>> 
>> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image)
>> about GRML or similar things.
>> 
>> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Sean McMahon]

last year I got a del enspiron 600M with a cerial port.  If you google there 
notes on how to get this laptop to work with linux.  That moddle last year sold 
for 1300 however.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Beech" <a.beech@bigpond.net.au>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: laptops with serial ports


> G'day Alex,
>
> You might be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays with serial ports!  An
> alternative option would be to use a USB to serial converter.  The main
> question is, I guess, would Speakup be able to use a USB interface even
> though the converter should by rights show up as a serial port?  I haven't
> tried using USB to serial converters under any of the Linux flavors and
> probably don't fully understand all the ins and outs, etc -- hence my point
> here may be a mute one.
>
> Cheers.
> AB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> Sent: Saturday, 15 July 2006 4:30 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>
> -- 
> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of
> careful development.
> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Whapples]

GRML can be found at www.grml.org
I think it contains speakup in the standard CD, well it says the following 
in the features section at their site "usability by the visually impaired 
right out of the box" so it must have some screenreader. I just don't know 
as I haven't used it myself, but have read messages to this list before 
about GRML.

Another project that is a bootable CD version of linux with software speech 
output is oralux at www.oralux.org but I think their aims are slightly 
different, to simplify linux for the newby.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dart Vader" <ak47.ataka@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports


>
> Hi, Michael.
>
> Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image) about
> GRML or similar things.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
> WBR, Roman
> out
>
>>>>>> " " == Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:
>
> > My comment about the sound card was more to do with using something
> > like GRML, where the CD contains sound drivers, speakup and software
> > speech components, so Alex would be able to install a distribution of
> > linux using software speech. Admittedly this is not quite as good as
> > using a hardware synth and speakup for install as it requires the
> > system to boot without any problems (at least problems that don't
> > prevent it booting and don't affect the sound card), before speech
> > can be started. I would guess that it would be easier to find a
> > modern laptop that meets those requirements than the requirement of a
> > serial port (particularly considering his budget).
>
> > From Michael Whapples
>
> >  Laura Eaves writes:
>
>>> Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that
>>> loaded?  The serial port is probably not essential for any purpose
>>> other than boot time access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia
>>> to serial adaptor is sufficient.  --le
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples"
>>> <mikster4@msn.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install
>>> linux with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something
>>> with a suitable sound card and use software speech in something like
>>> GRML. I think people were saying in discussions about GRML that it is
>>> possible to install debian from that, and it should most certainly be
>>> possible to install gentoo with that (as I think all the install
>>> stuff is in the stage file that you decompress to the hard disk and
>>> and the speech is provided by the linux CD).
>>>
>>> As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very
>>> hard to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find
>>> one at Dell, the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in
>>> production)). Sorry I can't help too much with that part, all the
>>> ones I can find seem out of your price limit (evesham computers have
>>> one with a serial port, but approx 1200 www.evesham.com). May be one
>>> of these companies that can build laptops to order could do
>>> something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need to
>>> stick to that limit.
>>>
>>> If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other
>>> solutions with various adaptors from other ports suitable?
>>>
>>> From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow"
>>> <alex_snow@gmx.net> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July
>>> 14, 2006 7:29 PM Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
>>>> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?
>>>> My main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to
>>>> find something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>>>>
>>>> -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten
>>>> years of careful development.  -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Dart Vader]

Hi, Michael.

Could you, please, tell the url, where I can read (download image) about
GRML or similar things.

Thanks for your attention.
WBR, Roman
out

>>>>> " " == Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com> writes:

 > My comment about the sound card was more to do with using something
 > like GRML, where the CD contains sound drivers, speakup and software
 > speech components, so Alex would be able to install a distribution of
 > linux using software speech. Admittedly this is not quite as good as
 > using a hardware synth and speakup for install as it requires the
 > system to boot without any problems (at least problems that don't
 > prevent it booting and don't affect the sound card), before speech
 > can be started. I would guess that it would be easier to find a
 > modern laptop that meets those requirements than the requirement of a
 > serial port (particularly considering his budget).

 > From Michael Whapples

 >  Laura Eaves writes:

>> Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that
>> loaded?  The serial port is probably not essential for any purpose
>> other than boot time access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia
>> to serial adaptor is sufficient.  --le
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples"
>> <mikster4@msn.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
>> 
>> 
>> What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install
>> linux with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something
>> with a suitable sound card and use software speech in something like
>> GRML. I think people were saying in discussions about GRML that it is
>> possible to install debian from that, and it should most certainly be
>> possible to install gentoo with that (as I think all the install
>> stuff is in the stage file that you decompress to the hard disk and
>> and the speech is provided by the linux CD).
>> 
>> As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very
>> hard to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find
>> one at Dell, the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in
>> production)). Sorry I can't help too much with that part, all the
>> ones I can find seem out of your price limit (evesham computers have
>> one with a serial port, but approx 1200 www.evesham.com). May be one
>> of these companies that can build laptops to order could do
>> something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need to
>> stick to that limit.
>> 
>> If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other
>> solutions with various adaptors from other ports suitable?
>> 
>> From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow"
>> <alex_snow@gmx.net> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, July
>> 14, 2006 7:29 PM Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
>>> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?
>>> My main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to
>>> find something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>>> 
>>> -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten
>>> years of careful development.  -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>  _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Alex Snow]

Actually I've found a bunch of dell laptops (most of the latitudes) 
that have serial ports so will probably go with one of those.
On Sun, Jul 
16, 2006 at 05:39:33PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> My comment about the sound card was more to do with using something like 
> GRML, where the CD contains sound drivers, speakup and software speech 
> components, so Alex would be able to install a distribution of linux using 
> software speech. Admittedly this is not quite as good as using a hardware 
> synth and speakup for install as it requires the system to boot without any 
> problems (at least problems that don't prevent it booting and don't affect 
> the sound card), before speech can be started. I would guess that it would 
> be easier to find a modern laptop that meets those requirements than the 
> requirement of a serial port (particularly considering his budget).
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> 
>  Laura Eaves writes:
> 
> > Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that loaded?  The 
> > serial port is probably not essential for any purpose other than boot time 
> > access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia to serial adaptor is 
> > sufficient.
> > --le
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@msn.com>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
> > 
> > 
> > What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux
> > with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable
> > sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people
> > were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian
> > from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with
> > that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you
> > decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).
> > 
> > As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard
> > to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell,
> > the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too
> > much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit
> > (evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200
> > www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to
> > order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need
> > to stick to that limit.
> > 
> > If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions
> > with various adaptors from other ports suitable?
> > 
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
> > Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
> > 
> > 
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
> >> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
> >> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
> >> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
> >> of careful development.
> >> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Whapples]

My comment about the sound card was more to do with using something like 
GRML, where the CD contains sound drivers, speakup and software speech 
components, so Alex would be able to install a distribution of linux using 
software speech. Admittedly this is not quite as good as using a hardware 
synth and speakup for install as it requires the system to boot without any 
problems (at least problems that don't prevent it booting and don't affect 
the sound card), before speech can be started. I would guess that it would 
be easier to find a modern laptop that meets those requirements than the 
requirement of a serial port (particularly considering his budget).

From
Michael Whapples

 Laura Eaves writes:

> Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that loaded?  The 
> serial port is probably not essential for any purpose other than boot time 
> access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia to serial adaptor is 
> sufficient.
> --le
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@msn.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports
> 
> 
> What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux
> with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable
> sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people
> were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian
> from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with
> that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you
> decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).
> 
> As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard
> to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell,
> the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too
> much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit
> (evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200
> www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to
> order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need
> to stick to that limit.
> 
> If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions
> with various adaptors from other ports suitable?
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
> Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
> 
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
>> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
>> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
>> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>>
>> -- 
>> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
>> of careful development.
>> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>>
>>
>>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Laura Eaves]

Doesn't the sound card require a driver? At what point is that loaded?  The 
serial port is probably not essential for any purpose other than boot time 
access, so for other peripherals a USB or pcmcia to serial adaptor is 
sufficient.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4@msn.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports


What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux
with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable
sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people
were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian
from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with
that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you
decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).

As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard
to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell,
the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too
much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit
(evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200
www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to
order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need
to stick to that limit.

If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions
with various adaptors from other ports suitable?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


> Hi All,
>
> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>
> -- 
> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
> of careful development.
> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>
>
>

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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Michael Whapples]

What is the reason for serial port? If it is to be able to install linux 
with speakup, then would it be possible to choose something with a suitable 
sound card and use software speech in something like GRML. I think people 
were saying in discussions about GRML that it is possible to install debian 
from that, and it should most certainly be possible to install gentoo with 
that (as I think all the install stuff is in the stage file that you 
decompress to the hard disk and and the speech is provided by the linux CD).

As I remember last year when my old HP laptop got stolen, it was very hard 
to find a replacement with a serial port (although I did find one at Dell, 
the inspiron 510m (I think no longer in production)). Sorry I can't help too 
much with that part, all the ones I can find seem out of your price limit 
(evesham computers have one with a serial port, but approx 1200 
www.evesham.com). May be one of these companies that can build laptops to 
order could do something, but I think they will be too expensive if you need 
to stick to that limit.

If you want the serial port for other things, then is there other solutions 
with various adaptors from other ports suitable?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


> Hi All,
>
> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit
> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My
> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find
> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
>
> -- 
> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
> of careful development.
> -- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
>
>
> 

Re: laptops with serial ports

[Glenn at home]

Maybe you can find a PCMCIA serial port for a laptop.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:29 PM
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


Hi All,

Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit 
faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My 
main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find 
something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.

-- 
MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development.
-- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca

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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Gregory Nowak]

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I stand to be corrected, or someone else's experience may not match
what I seem to recall, but I do seem to recall modifying a slackware
boot floppy way back when, to launch agetty on /dev/usb/ttyS0, (or
whatever the usb serial ports are called, I haven't used mine in a
while). I seem to recall that it did work too. My recollection may be
wrong though.

How about using a serial port on a pcmcia card? If it's still possible
to get those, they should work with speakup too I think.

Greg


On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:58:24PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> The problem with usb to serial is I don't know if it'll give me a 
> serial console to do an install...I know it won't work with speakup 
> compiled into the kernel since the usb subsystem doesn't load early 
> enough.
> 
> I actually did find 2 laptops with serial, the Latitude d820 and the 
> Inspiron 600m.

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Re: laptops with serial ports

[Alex Snow]

The problem with usb to serial is I don't know if it'll give me a 
serial console to do an install...I know it won't work with speakup 
compiled into the kernel since the usb subsystem doesn't load early 
enough.

I actually did find 2 laptops with serial, the Latitude d820 and the 
Inspiron 600m.
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:21:35AM +1000, Adrian Beech 
wrote:
> G'day Alex,
> 
> You might be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays with serial ports!  An
> alternative option would be to use a USB to serial converter.  The main
> question is, I guess, would Speakup be able to use a USB interface even
> though the converter should by rights show up as a serial port?  I haven't
> tried using USB to serial converters under any of the Linux flavors and
> probably don't fully understand all the ins and outs, etc -- hence my point
> here may be a mute one.
> 
> Cheers.
> AB
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> Sent: Saturday, 15 July 2006 4:30 AM
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit 
> faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My 
> main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find 
> something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.
> 
> -- 
> MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of
> careful development.
> 	-- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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RE: laptops with serial ports

[Adrian Beech]

G'day Alex,

You might be hard pressed to find a laptop nowadays with serial ports!  An
alternative option would be to use a USB to serial converter.  The main
question is, I guess, would Speakup be able to use a USB interface even
though the converter should by rights show up as a serial port?  I haven't
tried using USB to serial converters under any of the Linux flavors and
probably don't fully understand all the ins and outs, etc -- hence my point
here may be a mute one.

Cheers.
AB


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Saturday, 15 July 2006 4:30 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: ot: laptops with serial ports


Hi All,

Looking at retiring my old Latitude cpt in favor of something a bit 
faster.  What current laptops do people here have experience with?  My 
main requirement is something with a serial port, and I'd like to find 
something under $1,000.  Any input would be apreciated.

-- 
MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of
careful development.
	-- dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca

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