Speakup and serial adapter cards

[Michael Whapples]

I must have been unfortunate in finding an Asus board with no serial port, 
checking the manual and just from poking about the board I cannot find a 
header. While I'm not one for changing computer parts frequently, I have to 
say I am not so impressed with this particular board and so if I do change 
it anytime soon I will pay particular attention to whether the next board 
has the serial port or header for one.

Michael Whapples

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Heim
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:23 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards

Like I said in another message, the cable you need is about $4.  One end has
a female square plug that goes into the motherboard and the other has a DB9
connector attached to a plate that fits into the opening for an expansion
slot.
If you hadn't already said you have a serail port header on your Asus
motherboard, I would have told you that you probably have it. I am not sure
Asus makes a motherboard with no serial port at all. But most of them do not
have the external DB9 connector.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards


> Yes I agree this really is an issue. 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 so I could connect a port to the header should I need it.
>
> OK there are a few boards still built with serial ports, but this limits 
> the choice and so if you want certain features you may just have to choose 
> a system with no serial port. So having support for a serial adapter 
> (either USB or PCI/PCIE) would be very useful.
>
> Michael Whapples
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: D. Curtis Willoughby
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:26 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Speakup and serial adapter cards
>
> This is getting to be a big problem!
>
> I have a new computer without a serial port.  To use a hardware
> synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial
> adapter or a PCI-E card.  This computer does not have PCI slot(s).
> If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed,
> serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete.
>
> I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is
> still well not wonderful.  I have not been able to establish
> whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses
> so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect
> they cannot.  Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it
> can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0
> and ttyS1?  Would you developers please look at a solution for
> this one?  Please!
>
> D. Curtis Willoughby
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>> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards.
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a USB to 
>> >serial
>> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use serial 
>> ports p
>> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most interested 
>> in th
>> e PCI-Express adapter cards.
>> >
>> >Michael Whapples
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