Re: PCI serial?

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

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:58:15PM -0700, 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.  I can't install Linux without using Speakup, and I can't 
> use Speakup without a serial port, and I can't, well, you get the
idea.

Honestly, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. If you were
playing around in a vm thus far, and if you're ok with how the vm
does, my advice would be to just stick with the vm. Provided you have
a fairly modern system, which you seem to, there's really not much
difference between running in a vm, and on a physical box. Arguably,
running in a vm has the advantage that you have a specific set of
emulated hardware. Provided that hardware works ok for you with linux,
if you don't run on a physical box, you don't have to worry about
trying to get actual hardware to work, especially if you didn't build
or design the system yourself with the intent of running gnu/linux on
it.

Greg


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