Slack 13.37 and 14.0

[Mitchell D. Lynn]

I don't know about "most mainboards," but none of those I have looked at in
the flesh over the past 12-months or so have had any serial connections at
all.  

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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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