off topic but urgent

[Gregory Nowak]

Why does Intel want serial ports off? Is it because their junky CPUs such as
the celeron have trouble running them (ha, ha, ha)?
Greg
]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: off topic but urgent


> 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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