Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Beth:

I don't know about the docking station serial port, but if it registers
as /dev/ttyS0, or some such, you should be OK. Of course, you may not
know about this until after you've installed Linux on your Thinkpad.

I would suggest you can accessibly install FC6 using speech on a second
computer, probably your desktop. You need to have both machines
connected over tcp/ip networking, and then you can use telnet from the
desktop to the Thinkpad to install
FC6 on the Thinkpad.


Janina

PS: Congrats on getting the 60. I'm still using an X31, but I'm a great
fan of Thinkpads myself.


Beth Hatch writes:
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to set up a dual boot using Fedora 6 on my brand new 
> Thinkpad T60P laptop.  I already have a Linux desktop computer using the 
> Speakup modified Fedora 6, Gnome and Orca, etc.  Unfortunately, my 
> Thinkpad doesn't have an onboard serial port built into the system.  I 
> am wondering if Speakup would recognize my Dectalk Express hooked up to 
> either the docking station, which does have a serial port, or the 
> serial/parallel port bay adapter that I also purchased for this 
> computer.  The adapter fits into the ultrabay, you remove the DVD drive 
> and put the adapter into the bay instead.  I could probably install 
> Linux in graphical mode only using Gnome and Orca, but I would like to 
> have Speakup for use in text mode work and for the flexibility that 
> having Speakup access would provide for me.  Having Speakup available  
> would of course  allow me to  install Linux independently, also a very 
> important factor for me!!  I know I can use Speakup with software 
> synthesizers and speech dispatcher, but I need to get it installed 
> first.<smile>