usb ports only on laptop

[Joseph C. Lininger]

I have to throw you a no on that one. I wasn't just saying that the
install doesn't work, I'm saying that Speakup won't commmunicate to a
synth using a USB to serial converter. It doesn't matter when you load
the modules. It is a hardware problem. It has something to do with the
uart and the routines that control it, and that's all I know.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said

> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph C. Lininger"
<jbahm at pcdesk.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: usb ports only on laptop
>
>
>> Hi,
>> You can't use a USB to serial converter to use a serial synthesizer
with
>> Speakup. It has something to do with the hardware. I don't really
>> understand the exact problem myself, you'd have to ask Kurk. All I
know
>> is that it doesn't work. If you are running Linux on a laptop with no
>> serial ports, the only option you have is software speech.
>>
>> Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
>> Joseph C. Lininger
>> jbahm at pcdesk.net
>> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
>>
>> And so it came to pass that on Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos
said
>>
>>> Hi.  I have a laptop which has zero serial ports.  If I purchase a
USB
>> to
>>> serial converter and connect a speak-out to it will this be active
>>> immediately so that I can use the speak-up to install Linux with
>> speech?  Or
>>> does the USB to serial get configured after boot up meaning I would
>> not have
>>> access to the serial port right away?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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