Stéphane is not subscribed to blinux-list so I forward this upon him. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 23:10:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca> To: ipaq@handhelds.org, wear-hard@haven.org Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG> Subject: Braille access to iPaq! I have Braille access to my iPaq! Just thought I'd announce my success, because I find it cool! We (Nicolas Pitre and myself) have successfully ported BRLTTY to the iPaq and tested the setup by interfacing with a BrailleLite 18 through the serial port. BRLTTY is a program that allows access to the Linux text-mode console using various brands of Braille displays. The BrailleLite is a small electronic Braille notetaker device which can act as a small refreshable Braille display. It also has keys so I can not only read but also type. So there's just the iPaq and the BrailleLite device (with a horrible cable in between) and that's all I need to fully use the console on the iPaq (in text-mode). A pretty powerful setup, yet very small. At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in July, using a network card in my iPaq and borrowing the internet connection they supplied, I was actually able to logon to the net and go read my E-mail, using ssh, pine and lynx! It should be possible to duplicate this setup with other Braille display models or other PDAs. -- Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca> http://pages.infinit.net/sdoyon/