usb to serial adapter or cable

[Adam Myrow]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, randy turner wrote:

> it is bad that they say those serial card will work in linux
> because that is really not the case in some situations.

Well, they work in Linux, just not with Speakup.  Speakup comes up before 
the standard serial driver gets loaded, and basically implements its own 
serial driver which probes the normal IRQ/IO addresses for built-in serial 
cards looking for a synthesizer.  You're right in that the PCI cards never 
seem to come up on "normal" IRQ/address combinations.  Still, they can be 
used for other serial devices, like Braille displays and UPS monitoring.