Adding a BNS

Adding a BNS

[Keith Heltsley]

I am trying to work with a state rehab counselor about acquiring a Braille N
Speak. I know it will work as a synth with SpeakUp. How would I change the
config settings to use it? Which file would it be and where?

Also besides using a BNS as a synth, how would I transfer notes and files
between the computer and the BNS. That is probably an issue to take off list
so send me mail about it if you all have any ideas.


from
Keith H.
btbgkh@yahoo.com

"In accordance with our principles of free enterprise
and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to
fight to the death for it."
        - Monty Python

Re: Adding a BNS

[Gregory Nowak]

Since I think that others may benefit, I'm posting this on list. First, speakup works with the bns's default serial configuration, so you don't need to change a thing if that's what you're referring to.

As for transfering files between the bns and your gnu/linux box, first, you obviously cannot use the bns as a synth, and transfer files to and from it at the same time. Having said that, I've found that minicom does the job very well. Although, since I happen to own pcdisk, I have switched to using that along with dosemu once I got dosemu to work with my serial ports. I find that pcdisk runs under dosemu very nicely as well.
Greg


On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:58:35PM -0800, Keith Heltsley wrote:
> I am trying to work with a state rehab counselor about acquiring a Braille N
> Speak. I know it will work as a synth with SpeakUp. How would I change the
> config settings to use it? Which file would it be and where?
> 
> Also besides using a BNS as a synth, how would I transfer notes and files
> between the computer and the BNS. That is probably an issue to take off list
> so send me mail about it if you all have any ideas.
> 
> 
> from
> Keith H.
> btbgkh@yahoo.com
> 
> "In accordance with our principles of free enterprise
> and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to
> fight to the death for it."
>         - Monty Python
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Adding a BNS

[Dave Hunt]

If you're referring to kernel parameters, you would use,  
"speakup_synth=bns".


-Dave


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Since I think that others may benefit, I'm posting this on list. First, speakup works with the bns's default serial configuration, so you don't need to change a thing if that's what you're referring to.
> 
> As for transfering files between the bns and your gnu/linux box, first, you obviously cannot use the bns as a synth, and transfer files to and from it at the same time. Having said that, I've found that minicom does the job very well. Although, since I happen to own pcdisk, I have switched to using that along with dosemu once I got dosemu to work with my serial ports. I find that pcdisk runs under dosemu very nicely as well.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:58:35PM -0800, Keith Heltsley wrote:
> > I am trying to work with a state rehab counselor about acquiring a Braille N
> > Speak. I know it will work as a synth with SpeakUp. How would I change the
> > config settings to use it? Which file would it be and where?
> > 
> > Also besides using a BNS as a synth, how would I transfer notes and files
> > between the computer and the BNS. That is probably an issue to take off list
> > so send me mail about it if you all have any ideas.
> > 
> > 
> > from
> > Keith H.
> > btbgkh@yahoo.com
> > 
> > "In accordance with our principles of free enterprise
> > and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to
> > fight to the death for it."
> >         - Monty Python
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Adding a BNS

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi. Using a bns is really easy.
If you want speakup to use the bns add this to your append statement in 
lilo.conf.

speakup_synth=bns
 
Make sure it is in the quotes of the append line.

If you want to send and recieve files between them you will need to 
install 
and configure a program called minicom.
One problem here is you will not be able to use the bns as a synth and 
transfer files at the same time.

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:

> I am trying to work with a state rehab counselor about acquiring a Braille N
> Speak. I know it will work as a synth with SpeakUp. How would I change the
> config settings to use it? Which file would it be and where?
> 
> Also besides using a BNS as a synth, how would I transfer notes and files
> between the computer and the BNS. That is probably an issue to take off list
> so send me mail about it if you all have any ideas.
> 
> 
> from
> Keith H.
> btbgkh@yahoo.com
> 
> "In accordance with our principles of free enterprise
> and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to
> fight to the death for it."
>         - Monty Python
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Adding a BNS

[Janina Sajka]

The easiest way I know is to have separate configurations for each synth 
you plan to use in your lilo.conf. I include two such below by way of 
example. Note the alias = command on each. That makes it possible for me 
to simply type one letter and press enter.

image = /boot/vmlinuz
label=litetalk
alias = l
vga=0X317
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append = "speakup_synth=ltlk hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"

image = /boot/vmlinuz
label=bns
alias = b
vga=0X317
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append = "speakup_synth=bns hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda3
optional
label=dos

PS: The other element that's very helpful is to have your system speaker 
beep a couple of times to let you know you're at the boot> prompt. Do this 
by adding a couple of \A alias Ctrl-G to your /boot/message file. I have 
two.
 -- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Adding a BNS

[Janina Sajka]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:

> Thanks for the code to add to my lilo config Janina, I'll give it a try as
> soon as I'm ready to play with the TNS as a synth. I'm assuming that with
> the aliasing that I can switch on the fly? I'll figure that out when I cross
> that bridge.

Yes, you would have it always at hand to do on the fly as you boot. Of 
course, in your lilo.conf header you would specify a "default=" as well.

> 
> thanks again everybody,
> from
> Keith H.
> 
> Kitchen Sign:
> 1. A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen and this kitchen
> is delirious.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: Adding a BNS

[Keith Heltsley]

Thanks for all the info you all sent into the list. I was surprised
yesterday when my rehab counselor delivered the Type N Speak, instead of
Braille N Speak. Same thing, only different.

It came with an external disk drive, so my concern about transfering files
will probably be easier. From the documents I've read so far the transfer
commands come mostly from the Type N Speak and the floppies are standard
ones that shouldn't pose any problem for my disk drive in my computer.

Thanks for the code to add to my lilo config Janina, I'll give it a try as
soon as I'm ready to play with the TNS as a synth. I'm assuming that with
the aliasing that I can switch on the fly? I'll figure that out when I cross
that bridge.

thanks again everybody,
from
Keith H.

Kitchen Sign:
1. A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen and this kitchen
is delirious.