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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Nick Gawronski wrote:

> Hi, You can always buy a serial card for a very cheap price at any 
> computer store and just pop it in like a sound card and it should work 
> fine.

Not with Speakup it won't.  Speakup probes the hardware directly, and if 
the serial card's IO address and IRQ don't correspond to standard serial 
ports, it won't be recognized.