Peter, Unfortunately, I can't answer any of your questions, but I would like to ask another: When will the Elba be usable as a braille display for a computer through its USB port? I think the Elba list should be moved from smartgroups to freelists.org . For some reason, smartgroups just won't handle my messages correctly. It's the only place where I have problems. freelists.org is a much more suitable place for this list anyway. John On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:27:23PM +0100, peter.rayner@xxxxxx wrote: > Like several others here I'm noticing a distinct lack of response from > the elba discussion list. I received the usual confirmation of my > message last week but haven't seen a single item on the list. > I'll ask the same questions here ... it's only technically "on topic" > since the beast runs linux underneath but I acknowledge there's a > better list ... if it works. Oh, the list owner hasn't responded > either. > > Here's my questions: > 1) I ordered, I hope, both English and French for the machine. I > assumed this would cover both speech synthesis and braille. But I > don't see language options in the braille set-up. Can I enter and > read Grade II braille in more than one language? > If not, I would like to change this from French to English since I can > scarcely read French grade II yet anyway. If necessary, is this > possible at the user level or do I need help from Papenmeier and/or > the local distributor? I also would not mind changing the language > of interaction from French to English. I'm used to calling this the > "locale" and know how to set it on other distributions of linux but it > didn't seem to work here. > 2) USB keys? I didn't see these in the manual as among the supported > mass storage options. They are my preferred option though. Are they > supported? > 3) Wireless. I'm guessing the version of the manual I have is not > up-to-date. Does anyone know a list of currently made and supported > wireless cards? > 4) USB ADSL modems. This is very unlikely. I note pppoe is supported > but how about devices like the eagle-usb-based modems often supplied > with ADSL accounts, at least in France. I've only just got these to > work on my normal linux box so am not optimistic here. > 5) Site for updates. When I boot up my machine says > elba rev 123 > my manual is for 1.41 and people are talking about a more recent > update. I couldn't find this on the papenmeier site and the manual > wasn't forthcoming about *where* one found these. > Again, apologies for the marginal topic-group match and people should > perhaps reply to me off-line. > regards > Peter > > > -- > Peter Rayner > LSCE - CEA de Saclay > Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif/Yvette > work: +33 (1) 69 08 88 11; mobile: +33 (6) 75 46 56 52; fax: +33 (1) 69 08 77 16 > mail-to: peter.rayner@xxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list