s and developers of BRLTTY.
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] usb to serial adapter?
I got mine to work finally. Helps when you read all the literature but it
works pretty well with Ubuntu.
Tom
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, David Reynolds wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I have a prolific adaptor, and once installed, it allo
I got mine to work finally. Helps when you read all the literature but it
works pretty well with Ubuntu.
Tom
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, David Reynolds wrote:
Tom,
I have a prolific adaptor, and once installed, it allocates a serial port to
itself, in my case, com5. This works under windows, but I
[quoted lines by Jason White on 2008/06/13 at 17:42 +1000]
>For Bluetooth, it is my understanding that support would need to be provided
>directly in BRLTTY, and, having looked briefly at the code, this doesn't
>appear to have happened yet.
That's correct. It hasn't happened yet because I haven't
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:09:19PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Is that the case? I thought bluetooth was generic through all
> displays. So are you saying someone wrote a serial and usb to serial
> driver in the braille note driver?
No. The BrailleNote driver in BRLTTY supports serial access.
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Jason White wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:34:37PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
>> Again thanks for all the help with all of this and brltty is working
>> fantastic now... (I want to try bluetooth later for fun, anyone know
>> where to start with that?)
>
> Someone needs
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:34:37PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Again thanks for all the help with all of this and brltty is working
> fantastic now... (I want to try bluetooth later for fun, anyone know
> where to start with that?)
Someone needs to implement Bluetooth support in the BrailleNot
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jason White wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:15:39PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a serial cable I am told should work with the braille note and
>> linux. Can anyone confirm this? And does it have a female connector? (My
>> braille note has a mail so it s
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:15:39PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a serial cable I am told should work with the braille note and
> linux. Can anyone confirm this? And does it have a female connector? (My
> braille note has a mail so it should have a female?)
I can't make any prom
Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/29 at 17:45 +1000]
>>
Didn't the BrailleNote come with a serial cable?
>>>
>>> It did, that is what I have been using with ttyS0, but how does that help
>>> with a
My USB to serial converter identifies itself as:
Belkin Components F5U109/F5U409 PDA Adapter
I don't know the product or model number, though.
Finding a reliable serial to USB converter vendor with good kernel support
would help a number of people with older braille displays that don't provide
US
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:05:52PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
> > Can I get back to you once I ask them?
>
> It seems, very little writing is on the cable.
> Could you perhaps help me find a couple on ebay that everyone know will
> work and then tha
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Can I get back to you once I ask them?
It seems, very little writing is on the cable.
Could you perhaps help me find a couple on ebay that everyone know will
work and then that way I will know what I am doing and it should work?
I can take this one bac
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
> Is it a null modem adapter or just a straight-through adapter? the same
> question applies to the cable. This is where it gets tricky: you might have to
> ask someone whether anything indicative is written on the adapter or the
> cable.
Can I get back to
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:06:09PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Braille note serial: male
> Serial end of usb_to_serial cable: male
> USB end of cable: standard usb connection
> Adapter: Both ends female to connect the two males together (to connect
> the male on braille note to male on serial_
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/29 at 17:45 +1000]
>
>>> Didn't the BrailleNote come with a serial cable?
>>
>> It did, that is what I have been using with ttyS0, but how does that help
>> with a usb to serial connection?
>
> Because it's perform
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
> Could you send us the output of lsusb -v when the USB to serial converter is
> attached, and also confirm that the kernel logs still say it's detected as
Please see my last post.
> device ttyUSB1?
It seems on a reboot, it changed to 0, the logs even con
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
>> From earlier in the thread, it was an attempt to connect the braille display
> to a laptop that lacks a serial port, hence requiring a serial to USB adapter.
Actually my new desktop does not have one, but yes.
>
> I would recommend following Dave's adv
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:55:48AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I'm confused, though. If you're using the cable that came with the
> BrailleNote,
> and if the converter has a male serial port on it just like a PC with a
> serial
> port would have, then why do you need the adapter?
>From earl
[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/29 at 17:45 +1000]
>> Didn't the BrailleNote come with a serial cable?
>
>It did, that is what I have been using with ttyS0, but how does that help
>with a usb to serial connection?
Because it's performing the very same function.
I'm confused, though. I
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:45:22PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> So, brltty or linux actually recognises my cable is connected and I am
> giving it the right port? (ttyUSB0)
Maybe, but I'm still somewhat disturbed by the fact that the kernel logs you
quoted earlier showed it as ttyUSB1. I have
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> what should I ask for next time I go to the shop?
>
> I assume the USB->Serial converter has a male conector on it. Is that correct?
yes
Both ends.
>
> What kind of connector is on the BrailleNote?
A male.
> Didn't the BrailleNote come with a serial c
[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/29 at 08:19 +1000]
>OK, so this is confusing me,
i'm not surprised. This stuff isn't very straight forward.
>what should I ask for next time I go to the shop?
I assume the USB->Serial converter has a male conector on it. Is that correct?
What kind of
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:
> You need to know what kind of adapter you have (straight-through or
> cross-over), and you also need to know what kind of cable you have
> (straight-through or cross-over). You also need to know if both the adapter
> and
> cable support all nine serial li
[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/28 at 21:41 +1000]
>Yes, I have an adapter. Is that what you mean? Or should I return the
>cable?
You need to know what kind of adapter you have (straight-through or
cross-over), and you also need to know what kind of cable you have
(straight-through o
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:46:30PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo grep -n -i 'brltty' /var/log/syslog | tail
>> 992:Apr 26 17:35:56 debian-compaq brltty[4773]: serial write error 19: No
>> such device.
>
> That looks like the prob
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Mario Lang wrote:
> Does it help if you explicitly specify serial? Like:
>
> brltty -b bn -d serial:ttyUSB1
Don't think so, see my reply with the log to Dave.
Thanks,
--
Daniel Dalton
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Mario Lang wrote:
> Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> If, as I suspect, it is writing to the correct device, there may be a kernel
>> issue.
>
> I've also seen usb-to-serial adaptors that did not fully support
> the serial port standard -- which do not work with cer
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:
[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/26 at 14:08 +1000]
When pluging my braille note into my box with a usb to serial (and an
adapter) (So it will connect since the port on the end of the cable is not
different so won't connect to the BN) I then plu
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
> To add to the fine suggestions which others have made here, it might also be
> helpful to examine the extra (debugging) messages written to the log if you
> run brltty with the -l debug option:
> brltty -l debug -b bn -d serial:/dev/ttyUSB1
Is this what D
To add to the fine suggestions which others have made here, it might also be
helpful to examine the extra (debugging) messages written to the log if you
run brltty with the -l debug option:
brltty -l debug -b bn -d serial:/dev/ttyUSB1
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[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/26 at 14:08 +1000]
>When pluging my braille note into my box with a usb to serial (and an
>adapter) (So it will connect since the port on the end of the cable is not
>different so won't connect to the BN) I then plug the usb end into my usb
>port.
One
Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If, as I suspect, it is writing to the correct device, there may be a kernel
> issue.
I've also seen usb-to-serial adaptors that did not fully support
the serial port standard -- which do not work with certain serial braille
displays (I think it was somet
Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When pluging my braille note into my box with a usb to serial (and an
> adapter) (So it will connect since the port on the end of the cable is not
> different so won't connect to the BN) I then plug the usb end into my usb
> port.
> $ sudo dmesg | les
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:46:30PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo grep -n -i 'brltty' /var/log/syslog | tail
> 992:Apr 26 17:35:56 debian-compaq brltty[4773]: serial write error 19: No
> such device.
That looks like the problem. Something is going wrong when BRLTTY atte
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
>> What log should I grep? I'm not very familiar with the logs yet...
>> I just grepped every file in /var/log/ which was probably quite stupid
>> since the output had 3000 lines...
>> (searching for the words brltty) (ignoring case)
>
> grep brltty /var/log
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:47:47PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> What log should I grep? I'm not very familiar with the logs yet...
> I just grepped every file in /var/log/ which was probably quite stupid
> since the output had 3000 lines...
> (searching for the words brltty) (ignoring case)
gr
Hi Jason,
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:08:24PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
>> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13 usb 1-1:
>> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice pl2303 1-1:1.0: ch341-uart converter
>> detected usb 1-1: ch34
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:08:24PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> The last two lines I see are:
>
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13 usb 1-1:
> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice pl2303 1-1:1.0: ch341-uart converter
> detected usb 1-1: ch341-uart converter now
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