Hi All, I thought I'd just post a couple of thoughts which have occurred to me recently about increasing access to installation, and to the early parts of the boot process on Linux using (in my case) a braille lite. I recently had a Braille lite M20 purchased on my behalf, and have been attempting to get it working with brltty. (I have a more or less working 'hack' but nothing remotely resembling a respectable patch yet). At the same time, I've been reading the documentation about the Braille lite (poor in my view), and following the discussions about using the serial port of a linux box, for console access. One of the much discussed features of the BL in the manuals and advertising, is its ability to interface with bulletin boards, and it turns out that there is a program available from Freedom Scientific, which allows it to be used as a VT100. I was pretty appalled to discover that this program won't work on the M20 model of the braille lite, but it at any rate shows its possible. I wondered whether people wanting to use braille lite type notetakers with Linux would be better employed trying to get the BL to work as a decent terminal for use as a console, rather than on trying to get brltty to work with it. Afterall, console access via ttys0 is presumably available considerably earlier than you can start the brltty daemon????? Maybe, the best solution would be a combination of the two, since brltty certainly gives you a far more flexible interface than would be achievable with a vt100, not least among its advantages, being its use of braille tables to break the reliance on american computer code. Anyway, I'd be interested to kow what people think, and if anyone has got the BL working as a terminal? (I don't know how you're supposed to go about writing external programs for the BL, which is what a terminal emulator would have to be.) Regards, Tim Pennick