other unix variants and speech, maybe with speakup

[Brent Harding]

Oh, cool, never knew serial cards for laptops even existed any more, usb is
becoming so popular, and so unusable for linux right now. My laptop's
modem, is recognized as com2 or ttyS1 under linux, adding an extra port
card, may or may not add a third entry to the system. 'm not sure if all
laptops have it in the bios to support more add on ports or not. At the
time I got the laptop I never thought I would ever see a day where two
ports are needed, then I'd probably have to carry a docking station where I
went if I needed the other port, not too portable when using multiple
machines.
At 10:45 AM 8/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>For my laptop, I have more pcmcia cards than I have slots to plug them in.
>You just have to decide which devices you need at a given time.  pcmcia
>cards are hot swapible.  Therefore can be swapped in and out at any time.
>
>When I need to use my laptop as a speaking terminal, as you, I need 2 serial
>ports.  I just take out my modem or ethernet card and insert my serial card.
>It works pretty well.
>
>Terry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brent Harding [mailto:bharding at mail.ufw2.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 5:07 PM
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Subject: RE: other unix variants and speech, maybe with speakup
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>The trouble becomes, how do I get a second com port put in to my laptop? My
>one comport I have is used by the dectalk-express, as it's easier to edit
>files with linux telnet than windows telnet, thus the need for hardware
>speech. I suppose that I could ftp it down, edit in notepad and upload, but
>that may not work for everything. Can these systems be made to use the
>parallel port, as my laptop has nothing reserved for it's use. If they make
>me use the same machine ass I do for other occations of using the laptop at
>home, how do I get a third pcmcia slot put in? Mine has a modem and dvd
>card in already, the dvd can go away because I never use it, but multiple
>network setups for what I might use at home when dsl comes versus the
>network at the job being autodetected at boot. According to what I've heard
>they use one desssktop that has an omniview type thing to switch the
>machine being controlled by the keyboard monitor, and mouse, but then
>screen readers  and internal synthesizers a
>re needed on each machine, unless someone has developed network sharing of
>one synthesizer or a pci or isa A/B switch to go along with it.
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