PCI serial?

[John covici]

As far as I know, speakup will not work with one of these  cards --
sometimes motherboards have a serial port which is not brought out to
the back -- maybe you could check and see.  Most boards except very
new ones had one serial port, but sometimes it is just a header. 


on Saturday 07/28/2007 Luke Yelavich(themuso at themuso.com) wrote
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 > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:58:15PM EST, Zachary Kline wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > >     Is it possible to configure the board to do this sort of thing?  I'm no 
 > > hardware expert, at all, and it just seems as if I'm at a serious 
 > > disadvantage here.
 > 
 > PCI is designed to be automatically configured to any available resource 
 > on the machine. No PCI card has any jumpers etc to configure particular 
 > resources. The best you can hope for is for your BIOS to force the 
 > assignment of a particular IRQ to the slot your serial card is in. 
 > However, that doesn't solve the I/O port allocation, and it doesn't work 
 > with systems that use APIC.
 > - -- 
 > Luke Yelavich
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