usb ports only on laptop

[Janina Sajka]

Don't think it was me talking about pcmcia serial, though I, too, might
become a customer for such a thing.

I did post about my new-to-me Thinkpad X31 laptop, purchased on Ebay.
It, too, has no serial ports. Nor does it have a cd rom. I had been
hoping to install using a usb memory stick. This didn't work for me, but
I would definitely recommend trying this method first, as it's easier to
set up, and it's well supported in Fedora.

I ended up using pxe with some serious community help. So, if you need
to go that route, I'll put some documentation together.

Gregory Nowak writes:
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> I haven't seen anyone mention pcmcia serial ports in this discussion
> yet, which you may still be able to get somewhere. In fact, I seem to
> recall Janina, or maybe someone else posting on here in a different
> thread a few months ago, giving a web site where you can still
> purchase those from.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0700, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> > That is what I was afraid of.  I can probably install Linux just fine with 
> > minimal sighted assistance since I know the prompts for FC3 and for 
> > Slackware 10.1 very well.  I will probably go ahead with FC3 since that is 
> > my latest distro to learn adding to Slack and Debian knowledge.
> > 
> > What I wonder then, is if once the laptop is booted and running, if I could 
> > run speakup modules for speak-out after the USB to serial is connected.  I 
> > know software speech is nice but I still love my good old trusty hardware 
> > synthesizer.
> > 
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