[BRLTTY] Braille Lite with netbook

2014-06-18 Thread Cathy McCombs
My goal is to connect a Braille Lite to an Acer Aspire One netbook (or any laptop) so that a sighted person can type via QWERTY keyboard and have a deafblind person read out the communication on the Braille Lite. (Face-to-face communication) I'm having a hard time finding the right cable for one

[BRLTTY] Braille Lite with iPaq

2014-06-18 Thread Cathy McCombs
How are they connected? What kind of cable? How port brltty to the ipaq? Can this setup be used for face-to-face communication with a deafblind person? I'm very interested in this. Thank you very much. FYI I'm not a developer/programmer so may need it dumbed down. CathyM CathyM __

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille Lite with netbook

2014-06-19 Thread Cathy McCombs
Thx so much for quick response. It sounds a simple solution. I'll certainly look into it. CathyM ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille Lite with netbook

2014-07-02 Thread Cathy McCombs
Well, I got that serial to USB adapter. Check. Installed brltty (I think) for Linux on netbook. But I can't be sure since I have minimal experience with Terminal. I just don't know where to go from there. Perfect Paul keeps saying "Waiting on serial device," and the only way to shut him up is to

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY Digest, Vol 10, Issue 148

2014-07-03 Thread Cathy McCombs
ng, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of BRLTTY digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: brltty 5.0 and 5.1 windows builds (Siju Samuel) > 2. Re: Braille L

[BRLTTY] Braille Lite and netbook

2014-07-04 Thread Cathy McCombs
> You can reach the person managing the list at >brltty-ow...@mielke.cc > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of BRLTTY digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: BRLTTY Digest, Vol 10, Issue 148 (C