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* new hardware
@  Laura Eaves
   ` Ned
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Laura Eaves @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Hello --
I just got my new DecTalk in the mail today -- wasn't going to get a 
hardware synth, but from the posts on this list, I deecided it would be a 
good idea.
Anyway, now I need a machine and would like to get a laptop if possible, but 
wanted to get recommendations first.
Is it hard to run linux on a laptop? Are there any added complexities 
running it with speakup?
What about drivers for the particular hardware? If you aren't able to 
connect to the net wethout a driver, I assume the driver has to be 
downloaded on another pc and transfered by CD or floppy, but does it have to 
be compiled for linux, or is that below the OS level so that it will run 
with any OS?
Sorry for the dumb questions, but I am a relative newbie on administrative 
issues.
Thanks in advance.
--le



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* New hardware
@  james collins
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: james collins @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Kind of off topic, so respond privately. I was just wondering, I was  
trying to get yasr to work. I got a dialogue box on my computer saying  
to the effect new hardware found. There was an option to open system  
preferences and set up new hardware. I had already installed the  
drivers for my USB to serial adaptor. My question is even though I had  
installed the drivers is it possible that I would have to set up new  
hardware in order to get yasr to work? In system preferences my USB to  
serial adaptor showed up under networking, my doubletalk speech  
synthesizer was plugged in. Another question I have is I tried to  
connect to my doubletalk, but got a modem error, I was wondering it  
seems like my computer is treating the doubletalk as a modem. I was  
wondering is it actually possible to connect to the doubletalk? I was  
trying to use yasr and I was unable to get it to work. And my computer  
said it found new hardware I just wondered about actually if I would  
want to connect to my doubletalk? Or is my computer just confusing my  
speech synthesizer with a modem?

Sent from my iPhone

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* RE: New Hardware
@  Watson, Keith
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Watson, Keith @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'speakup@braille.uwo.ca'

Steve,

Thanks. Was beginning to wonder if the cry for help got through or not. 

I have read the PCMCIA-HOWTo. Section 2.3.1 deals with desktop readers. Its
all of 10 lines long. It did mention that I may want to set "irq_list=0" for
the Action Tec, but where I should set it it did not say. As a certain actor
used to say in his earlier days, "I'm sooooooo confused!".

Anyway, thanks for the response. Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawes, Stephen [mailto:Stephen.Dawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:06 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: New Hardware


Keith,

All though I know nothing about external PCMCIA readers, I believe that
you should be able to get it to work, based on a comment that Janina
made during the discussion about software synths.  She was talking about
a possible PCMCIA synth instead of a software synth, to which I replied
that may work for laptop users but not desktop users, and that is when I
found out that you could get a PCMCIA reader for a desktop computer.  Oh
yeah, there was no mention on how to install and get it working.

Ok, I know that I did not answer your question, but I thought that it
may shed a ray of hope for you.  By the way, there is a PCMCIA HOWTO at
http://linuxdocs.org that may shed some light on the problem for you.  I
believe that this HOWTO looks at not only PCMCIA for the laptop
environment, but as well, it address the kind of thing that you are
trying to do.

I am surprised that all the helpful suggestions are not there for this
topic, unless, you are doing the extremely obscure this time.


Steve Dawes
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. 
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson@grtk.com]
> Sent: 2001 July 25 7:32 AM
> To: 'speakup@braille.uwo.ca'
> Subject: New Hardware
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a bit of a method problem to inquire about. As some of you may
> already know, I have recently purchaed an ISA PCMCIA Card 
> Reader for my
> Desktop system. What I am not sure about is how to go about 
> adding this new
> hardware.
> 
> My first attempt keeps locking up my system. Here is what I 
> have done. After
> installing the card I did a pnpdump to a file, /etc/isapnp.conf, and
> uncommented the appropriate lines. After this point I was at 
> a loss for the
> next step. I dug around and found that the file in 
> /etc/sysconfig named
> pcmcia had the line PCMCIA=no, PCIC=, so I set it to PCMCIA=yes, and
> PCIC=i82365. Oh, forgot to mention this is a Red Hat box. I 
> also found that
> the pcmcia service was not enabled under setup. I enabled it, and ran
> service pcmcia start. Nothing! I am at a loss at this point. 
> Can anyone make
> any suggestions?
> 
> Oh, and if it helps the unit is a Action Tec PC700.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Keith
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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* RE: New Hardware
@  Dawes, Stephen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Dawes, Stephen @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Keith,

All though I know nothing about external PCMCIA readers, I believe that
you should be able to get it to work, based on a comment that Janina
made during the discussion about software synths.  She was talking about
a possible PCMCIA synth instead of a software synth, to which I replied
that may work for laptop users but not desktop users, and that is when I
found out that you could get a PCMCIA reader for a desktop computer.  Oh
yeah, there was no mention on how to install and get it working.

Ok, I know that I did not answer your question, but I thought that it
may shed a ray of hope for you.  By the way, there is a PCMCIA HOWTO at
http://linuxdocs.org that may shed some light on the problem for you.  I
believe that this HOWTO looks at not only PCMCIA for the laptop
environment, but as well, it address the kind of thing that you are
trying to do.

I am surprised that all the helpful suggestions are not there for this
topic, unless, you are doing the extremely obscure this time.


Steve Dawes
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. 
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson@grtk.com]
> Sent: 2001 July 25 7:32 AM
> To: 'speakup@braille.uwo.ca'
> Subject: New Hardware
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a bit of a method problem to inquire about. As some of you may
> already know, I have recently purchaed an ISA PCMCIA Card 
> Reader for my
> Desktop system. What I am not sure about is how to go about 
> adding this new
> hardware.
> 
> My first attempt keeps locking up my system. Here is what I 
> have done. After
> installing the card I did a pnpdump to a file, /etc/isapnp.conf, and
> uncommented the appropriate lines. After this point I was at 
> a loss for the
> next step. I dug around and found that the file in 
> /etc/sysconfig named
> pcmcia had the line PCMCIA=no, PCIC=, so I set it to PCMCIA=yes, and
> PCIC=i82365. Oh, forgot to mention this is a Red Hat box. I 
> also found that
> the pcmcia service was not enabled under setup. I enabled it, and ran
> service pcmcia start. Nothing! I am at a loss at this point. 
> Can anyone make
> any suggestions?
> 
> Oh, and if it helps the unit is a Action Tec PC700.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Keith
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 


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* New Hardware
@  Watson, Keith
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Watson, Keith @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'speakup@braille.uwo.ca'

Hello all,

I have a bit of a method problem to inquire about. As some of you may
already know, I have recently purchaed an ISA PCMCIA Card Reader for my
Desktop system. What I am not sure about is how to go about adding this new
hardware.

My first attempt keeps locking up my system. Here is what I have done. After
installing the card I did a pnpdump to a file, /etc/isapnp.conf, and
uncommented the appropriate lines. After this point I was at a loss for the
next step. I dug around and found that the file in /etc/sysconfig named
pcmcia had the line PCMCIA=no, PCIC=, so I set it to PCMCIA=yes, and
PCIC=i82365. Oh, forgot to mention this is a Red Hat box. I also found that
the pcmcia service was not enabled under setup. I enabled it, and ran
service pcmcia start. Nothing! I am at a loss at this point. Can anyone make
any suggestions?

Oh, and if it helps the unit is a Action Tec PC700.

Thanks,

Keith


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