startech serial card

[randy turner]

hi chuck,
what brand of computer do i need to be looking at?
i just want a desktop computer
randy turner


On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> I can't answer the question about the USB driver, but it should not be
> difficult to find a computer with a serial port on the motherboard. I
> just bought a new computer with a very nearly state-of-the-art
> motherboard, that came with a serial port on the motherboard. Laptops
> might be a different story though, or so I understand.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:01:09AM -0600, randy turner wrote:
>>
>> hi chuck
>> i guess if it isn't all ready built in speakup just isn't going to see it.
>> so i have two questions for all of you.
>> how far are we from usb support with speakup?
>> and the second question is
>> where can i buy a computer that will work with speakup??
>> thanks to all
>> randy turner
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>>
>>> Randy,
>>>
>>> I doubt if removing the modem will help. I recently had a computer with
>>> one built-in serial port and a second serial port on a PCI card such as
>>> yours. I wanted to have a refreshable braille display and an external
>>> synthesizer on the box, and the only way to get the synthesizer to be
>>> recognized was to put it on the built-in port. The braille display
>>> worked either way, but the synthesizer only worked on the built-in port.
>>> My guess is that without any built-in serial ports, you can forget about
>>> installing with speakup.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
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>>
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