Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare

[Nick Stockton]

Oh wow that's brilliant.
I should try that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare


> Hi,
>    I need a USB to serial adapter on the Windows side of things, which I
> plug into one of the laptop's USB ports.
>    To VmWare, that appears as something like COM5.  I can create a virtual
> serial port in the VM by editing its hardware configuration before 
> starting
> it, and telling it, in this case, to use COM5 and connect the virtual 
> serial
> port to the physical one.
>    For power, I set the Dectalk USB to RS232 mode, and hook up its USB
> cable to another uSB port on this laptop.  The thing normally has 
> batteries,
> but 9-volt ones are rare and anyway, this is alright and works.  Just 
> start
> the virtual machine and tell Speakup as usual to find a dectalk express on
> what it thinks of as COM1, or speakup_ser=0
>    Hope this helps.  This is how I get around the lack of serial ports on
> this thing.
> Best,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare
>
>
>> How are you able to emulate a serial port and pass the synth commands
>> through to the dectalk USB?
>> It sounds really cool I didn't know vmware could do that.
>> -- 
>
>
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