speakup and serial hubs?

[Tom Moore]

Not sure if they still make these, but you want a serial card. Don't 
know how many ports they have on the card, but there should at least 
be two.
If you really need a lot of serial devices they did make these things 
devices that were like a hub that your describing that you could plug 
like either 8 or 16 serial devices in too that would give you some 
functionality like this, but from what I remember they only came as an 
isa board and not pci.
Most machines made today don't have any isa slots. You should be able 
to get away with a board that has two ports or mainbe picking up a 
couple of these things is what you'll want to do.
Places like Best Buy or Compusa should have what your looking for.

Tom

On 
Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:44:01PM -0500, Justin Ekis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When I had this computer built, they only put in one serial port, which 
> is used by my doubletalk LT for speakup.
> My braille lite m20 is finally fully supported by brltty so when the new 
> version gets into Debian I'd like to use it. Also the proprietary driver 
> for my winmodem still hasn't been updated for Linux 2.6 so I'd like to 
> buy a real modem.
> 
> I guess the term for what I have in mind would be a serial hub. 
> Something where you could plug into a serial port and plug three or four 
> devices into it. Is there such a thing and would Linux and speakup work 
> with it? Would I be able to use all three at once?
> 
> Justin Ekis
> 
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