off topic but urgent

[Kerry Hoath]

The usb stuff requires a daemon and modules to run it;
you can't get those loaded until after boot so speakup won't run with it since
usb isn't active early enough. I'd say you're screwed :-(
Why they have to take serial ports off notebooks altogether is beyond me; they're still more
common than usb although intel wants it otherwise.

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:14PM +1100, Ben van Poppel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1710 laptop, and, due to a
> gross misunderstanding on my part (being totally out of touch with
> laptop developments and ignorant of USB altogether) found out too late
> that the thing's got no bloody serial port, only a USB port. I can
> still return the thing if all else fails, but has anybody had
> experience with USB to serial adaptors under Linux? In particular, has
> anybody managed to get serial speech devices talking under either
> Emacspeak or Speakup using such an adaptor? 
> 
> Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, as I need to work out
> whether I should get this box working or swap it. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> -- 
> '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
> worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
> everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
> great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
> you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
> because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
> 
> (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
> 
> -- 
> '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
> worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
> everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
> great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
> you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
> because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
> 
> (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
> 
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