From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([67.62.15.196]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IEglE-0000fV-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:30:48 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l6S7Uiil022336 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:30:47 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7/Submit) id l6S7Ui7t022330; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:30:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18090.61604.315340.758614@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:30:44 -0400 From: John covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: PCI serial? In-Reply-To: <20070728071130.GA1328@marin.yelavich.home> References: <20070728064221.GA29760@marin.yelavich.home> <20070728071130.GA1328@marin.yelavich.home> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.95.1 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:30:49 -0000 As far as I know, speakup will not work with one of these cards -- sometimes motherboards have a serial port which is not brought out to the back -- maybe you could check and see. Most boards except very new ones had one serial port, but sometimes it is just a header. on Saturday 07/28/2007 Luke Yelavich(themuso@themuso.com) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:58:15PM EST, Zachary Kline wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure the board to do this sort of thing? I'm no > > hardware expert, at all, and it just seems as if I'm at a serious > > disadvantage here. > > PCI is designed to be automatically configured to any available resource > on the machine. No PCI card has any jumpers etc to configure particular > resources. The best you can hope for is for your BIOS to force the > assignment of a particular IRQ to the slot your serial card is in. > However, that doesn't solve the I/O port allocation, and it doesn't work > with systems that use APIC. > - -- > Luke Yelavich > GPG key: 0xD06320CE > (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) > Email & MSN: themuso@themuso.com > Jabber: themuso@jabber.org.au > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGquwijVefwtBjIM4RAkmSAKDwGb7lwMrr7+RjgbYOmc9J4QScXQCfYrs4 > lfibsRpAOoCdGOMueU4lmps= > =0CB/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/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@ccs.covici.com