Speakup and serial adapter cards

[pj at pjb.com.au]

Michael Whapples wrote:

> For some odd reason the Asus system board I have recently bought
> seems to have the serial port controller built in (Windows shows
> a serial port device in device manager for COM1) but Asus didn't
> feel the need to either provide the actual port or the pin header

That would be a very difficult quirk for a kernel module to
auto-detect. Perhaps there should be a module-parameter able
to specify a ttyS0-style, PCI, or USB port ?

Peter Billam

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