usb to serial adapter or cable

[randy turner]

hi Guy,
sad to say for some reason those pci
serial cards don't work on the standard irq and port address
i tried to set one up a month ago to see if it would work for me.
the card would only setup for irq 10 and ttyS3
that will not work with speakup.
from what i understand from others is that the serial com 1 card
needs to be built in to the mother board
other wise it won't see it as a standard serial card.
it is bad that they say those serial card will work in linux
because that is really not the case in some situations.
have a good one.
randy turner


On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Guy Schlosser wrote:

> I have a question along these same lines.  I just got a new dell for
> Christmas, but it doesn't have serial ports on it.  I went and bought
> a PCI card (manhattan) with two serial ports on it.  Will I be OK
> with this and Linux?  Anyone have any experience setting this
> up?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'll probably still roll
> with fedora core 6, since I've become used to working with it,
> although I've kicked around the idea of giving Ubuntu a spin. Thanks
> in advance for the help.
>
>
> Guy
>
>
> At 07:27 PM 12/14/2006, you wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:26:20AM EST, randy turner wrote:
>>> hi all
>>> does speakup workwith a usb to serial adapter or cable?
>>
>> No
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