Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Beth Hatch]

Hello to everyone,

Thank you Janina, Steve, Rick, and others who responded to my questions 
about the Thinkpad.  I've been playing with the new computer and so I'm 
a bit behind in my email.<smile>  Tomorrow I'm going to try to install 
using two Linux machines as Janina and others have suggested while I'm 
at school.  I have a Linux desktop there that I use, and that way I can 
get someone to read a screen or two for me to make sure I don't blow up 
anything.<smile>  I've installed Fedora several times on my home desktop 
machine just fine, but this will be the first time I've tried a dual 
boot system.  I'll be trying the VMware solution too as suggested by 
Steve because it sounds cool and because it might help to know these 
things while I am seeking employment.  Thank you all once again for your 
suggestions and support, I'll let you know if/when I make any progress.

Thanks again!!

Beth


Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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>
>>     
>
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