Talking bios

[Alex Snow]

no. that port is for doing administration tasks on the router using a 
terminal. 
the good routers have multiple interfaces, web, telnet, and serial.
On 
Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:14:03AM -0600, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:
> I have a terminal port on my router.  It is a 9 pin serial.
> Would this work with such a BIOS, or not?  It seems to me that there would
> be no way for the BIOS to see the router at that point.
> Glenn.
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> From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 3:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Talking bios
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> Hi
> Well, strikes me that if you own any kind of terminal capable of
> communicating at 9600 baud you could take advantage of this sort of access.
> This includes
> second computers, laptops, other notetakers, and whatever else you may have.
> Perhaps it won't benefit everybody, but IMHO, a little access sure as hell
> beats
> the access we have now., and I'd say access such as this, if it ever was
> implemented on a PC bios, would be a damn good start to something long
> overdue.
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:39:56 -0500, Allan Shaw wrote:
> 
> 
> >... but that's not what you indicated.  You indicated that you feel that by
> >connecting a Braille"n Speak to your system which allows you to access the
> >bios makes that bios perfectly accessible.  that's only one option, what if
> >you don't happen to own a braille'n speak?
> 
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