Speakup and PCI Express Serial Cards

[Trevor Astrope]

Hi Glenn,

I got the card from <http://www.softio.com>. The company is called Axxon 
though and I got the single port pci express card. I don't recall the 
price and model, but I can find out when I'm back at the office on Monday. 
It is based on an Oxford chip and I think the price was around $30 or $35 
USD. It is a Canadian company, but they charge in USD.

There are also other manufacturers who make pci express serial cards based 
on the oxford chip. Searching for "pci express serial card" on google will 
turn up a few results.

Keep in mind that I haven't been able to get it to work with my dectalk 
and speakup. I have an extra one that I am willing to donate to anyone who 
is willing to work on getting speakup to work with it.

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Glenn Ervin wrote:

> How much was the card, and where can I get one?
> I've been wanting a way to use my PC express slot in my laptop, hoping
> someone would make a synth to plug into it.  So far I have only found PC
> express video cards.
> I would use one of these for my DecTalk synth, serial type.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trevor Astrope" <astrope at tabbweb.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Speakup and PCI Express Serial Cards
>
>
> This is what I am thinking as well. Just fyi, the card doesn't use any
> special drivers and is compatible with the linux serial driver, which is
> built into my kernel. The company supports linux as well. This is why I
> bought it. It was just supposed to work. <grin>
>
> Here is the output from setserial:
>
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16950/954, Port: 0xcc00, IRQ: 16
>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>         closing_wait: 3000
>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
> Does speakup get the serial port address from the bios? Since the card
> isn't built-in, it would make sense that speakup can't find it, if this is
> the case.
>
> Using lspci, it does list the card and the serial port address and irq.
>
> Btw, I did try changing the uart to 16550A, as the card supports this uart
> type, but still no go.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trevor
>
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Adam Myrow wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Trevor Astrope wrote:
>>
>>> The serial port is provided by an Axxon pci express card.
>>
>> I think that's the problem.  So far as I know, Speakup still doesn't
>> support
>> serial ports that aren't built-in to the computer.  Since computers
>> generally
>> don't come with serial ports anymore, that is a huge problem.  Somehow,
>> there
>> needs to be a way to pass IRQ and port addresses to the module so that
>> such
>> PCI serial cards can work.  I've never encountered a PCI express serial
>> card,
>> so don't know if any special support in the kernel is required, other than
>> the obvious of having support for PCI express in the first place.
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