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The list did receive your message -- maybe no one knew how to answer
it.  You should contact the technical support phone number to find out
more information.  I can tell you one thing, no usb storage is
supported ta all since this is a slave device and the usb is not
supported even as a slave.

on Monday 03/14/2005 peter.rayner@xxxxxx(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 
 > 
 > 
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 > mail-to: peter.rayner@xxxxxx
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