Slack 13.37 and 14.0

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Did you look at the specs to see if they had the headers -- what they
seem to be doing these days is have the headers without a cable or
bracket, so you have to bring it out to a slot on the back of the unit.

Mitchell D. Lynn <mlynn at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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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