Re: laptops with serial ports

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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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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