startech serial card

[randy turner]

hi Greg,
i am trying to get speech up on a computer
that has no other serial ports or isa slot
i am using speakup.s for the bootup disk
  i am using an older litetalk
when i installed the card
i had a friend check to see if it was there using windows
it shows up as com 1
my question is does speakup.s
support a pci serial card in the speakup.s kernel?


i am using slackware
i have tried the install disk and the slackware cd
with the cd i type speakup.s speakup_synth=ltlk
when i install from the floppy i type
ramdisk speakup_synth=ltlk
my question is does speakup.s need another pci serial driver for this to 
work?

they say that it should work in linux
but i have searched on google and looked at the cd that came with it
and can't find a linux driver for it.
have you used other pci serial cards??
if so what does the kernel need to support them?

thanks in advance
randy turner


On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> I'm not familiar with that card, but from your description, I don't
> see why it shouldn't work. Have you tried it? If it doesn't work, does
> lspci show the card? Does dmesg give you any information? What is your
> serial configuration like in the kernel? Do you have your serial synth
> built into the kernel, and configured as the default? If yes, try
> building it as a module, loading it that way, and seeing what
> happens. Does your motherboard have built-in serial ports?
>
> Again, try this only if you've tried your card, and it doesn't
> work. If you haven't even tried the card, then just pop it in, and
> with luck, your serial synth should start speaking the boot messages
> if everything is configured properly.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:52:38PM -0600, randy turner wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>> does speakup work with pci rs232 serial cards?
>> the manual says that it will work in linux
>> my guess is that i might need to load a driver
>> before i load speakup?
>>
>> any ideas on how to do this?
>> thanks in advance
>> randy turner
>>
>>
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