Re: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples@aim.com>]

You could also try using the install CD through a serial console, as
this is meant to work with USB to serial devices (and I assume other
serial devices not built in). I remember when I wanted to look at
freebsd as an OS, I was able to install that in such a way (it was just
a shame that whenever it tried to use the network card it crashed the
machine). I don't know if the Fedora installation kernel has serial
console support, hopefully it would.

From
Michael Whapples
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:44 -0500, Erik Heil wrote:
> Hello,
> As far as installing Fedora 6 remotely, you can do so using telnet.  i.e. 
> if you have access to another Windows box (better yet, a Linux box) you 
> can do so via telnet.  Windows however would not be the best choice, as 
> cursor control is broken as far as Jaws/Window Eyes is.  If you go through 
> the archives, their have actually been posts on this very subject.  As I 
> currently don't use Fedora (most of the machines are running some flavor 
> of Sid), I can't speak from personal experience.
> 
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Beth Hatch wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:26:38 -0700
> > From: Beth Hatch <bhatch200@comcast.net>
> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >     <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > To: Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad
> > 
> >
> >
> > 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>
> >
> >
> >    Any thoughts or information anyone has on this issue would be most
> > appreciated.  Thanks in advance!!
> >
> > Beth
> >
> >
> >
> >
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