Slack 13.37 and 14.0

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Most motherboards have the serial headers, just not brought out to the
back.

Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:

> No, you're still not understanding.  Debian Wheezy has the 3.2 kernel, so
> no serial support.  That's why I suggested installing Squeeze and
> upgrading to Wheezy.  That way you can run the 2.6.32 kernel with newer
> packages and still have serial support.  No, you won't get most boot
> messages with software speech because it takes a while for sound drivers
> to load.  I have both kernels installed here so I can get hardware speech
> if my system becomes unbootable.  I had no problem finding a motherboard
> with a serial port last August.  You have to look for server motherboards,
> but they're not that hard to find.
> 
> On 5/15/2013 7:15 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
> > Thanks for the info on the 3.2 kernels. That, then, is the issue.
> > 
> > RE Debian: Looks like there has been a new release since I last
> > looked. Grabbed the Wheezy release and installed on a test system last
> > night. Software synth works fine on that machine. No serial port on
> > this system to test with DEC. I will see how it does on the main server
> > later this week when I can have it down for an extended period. I can
> > live with a software synth as long as I can get boot messages, and
> > serial ports are getting harder to find on modern mainboards.
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