Speakup and PCI Express Serial Cards

[Trevor Astrope]

Yeah, I thought the location was odd too. But it is indeed installed 
there.

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 222333 2010-01-14 10:03 
/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/speakup/speakup_dectlk.ko

I tried depmod -a again, but I still get the same result. The main speakup 
module does get loaded, so modprobe does appear to be finding the module. 
To be sure, I also tried insmod and get the same "No such device" error.

I'm curious if anyone else is using a hardware synth over a pci express 
serial card to know if this situation is unique to me.

Kirk, I'm in Montreal, so it would be easy for me to send the card to you 
if you have the time.

Thanks,

Trevor

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Have you checked to make sure the speakup_dectlk.ko module is actually
> at that position in the path?  That looks more like a modprobe error
> than a speakup one.  You might also try running depmod -a to make sure
> it's in the database.  I've found that sometimes modules_install's
> depmod doesn't quite cover the situation correctly.
>
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Trevor Astrope wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>> 
>> I'm still having trouble detecting my Dectalk Express with the latest 
>> speakup. This time I'm using FC12 with kernel 2.6.31 with speakup 3.1.5 
>> from git as of yesterday.
>> 
>> The issue is that the Dectalk cannot be found. I get the error below.
>> 
>> FATAL: Error inserting speakup_dectlk 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/speakup/speakup_dectlk.ko): No such 
>> device
>> 
>> The serial port is provided by an Axxon pci express card. I can communicate 
>> with the Dectalk in minicom with the serial port set to ttyS0 and 
>> 9600,n,8,1. The [:ver speak] command will result in the Dectalk speaking 
>> its firmware version.
>> 
>> So, I know the serial port works, but for some reason speakup is unable to 
>> detect the Dectalk. Note, I've also tried a vanilla 2.6.32 kernel as well 
>> as a modified 2.6.18 rhel5 kernel. I'm pretty confident that this isn't 
>> kernel related, but speakup or hardware related. Likely a combination of 
>> both, since I presume others are using the latest speakup with the Dectalk 
>> Express.
>> 
>> Is anyone able to help? I have a spare pci express serial card I can 
>> provide to anyone willing to help.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Trevor
>> 
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