Hi, I have encountered a simular problem. I even tried the hardware handshake stuff, and never got it to work. Bad file? bad disk? don't know. I just know that there are now two of us. Maybe someone can shed some light on this topic. I know I would be greatful. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: James Poss <shinnok@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:54 PM Subject: Problems with Speakup and Redhat > Hello all, > I'm trying to install Redhat Linux version 6.1 on my pc. > I can't get my braille lite to work with speakup. > I have my braille lite set to 9600 baud, a stop bit, 8 data bits, no > parity, and software handshaking. > I downloaded the bnsb.bin file from the speakup ftp site, extracted it > with rawrite, and tried rebooting my computer. > The floppy accessed for a few seconds, I assumed I had a "Boot:" prompt on > my screen, so I pressed enter. > The floppy accessed for a while longer, my braille lite made a pop sound > as if something had been sent to it to speak, but none of the speakup > reading keys seemed to produce any speech. > Any help that can be offered would be appriciated. Thanks > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup