From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G1Yv6-000277-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:26:12 -0400 Received: (qmail 24351 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 2006 18:25:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:25:41 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: laptops with serial ports Message-ID: <20060715012541.GA24331@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060714182943.GA26714@gmx.net> <000001c6a79c$3fb71e20$0a0510ac@minbari> <20060714235824.GA28313@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060714235824.GA28313@gmx.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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, 15 Jul 2006 01:26:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEuEQV7s9z/XlyUyARAijbAJoDYHtis0rJvXZkBjfSGHLUJtU70QCgoFzQ IXNsSMFQDgg9sOHJn/lA+HI= =KEfZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----