Would it not be easier overall if I just bought a second comm port controller and used that, or have they started making those incompatible with Linux now? Chris Schulte ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kutsch" <JimKutsch@xxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: RE: [Bulk] CentOs, speakup, and IRLP > Chris, > First, IRLP can run on any version of Linux as long as you are willing to > forgo their "official" support. All that really means is that you can't > ask the IRLP support volunteers to solve any problems. I have had IRLP > node > 4446 running here for several years on Fedora 9 with Speakup with no > problems. Note, I did have to change a few of their shell scripts to make > things work with Fedora. > > Second, unless you are truly committed to IRLP for something, there's a > fully open source ham radio RoIP (radio over IP) system available too. > The > AllStar Link system is based on the Asterisk PBX and functionally is very > similar to IRLP. Think of it as a separate, different network though. > There is no cross linking of IRLP and AllStar nodes. One possible > advantage > for your situation is that the radio interface is completely via USB. > The > interface circuit is built into a USB device. No sound card and no > parallel > port is required. I have the AllStar USB hardware here but haven't had > time > to convert from IRLP. It's one of those projects awaiting more spare > time. > > If you want help with IRLP, let me know. > > Jim, KY2D > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Christopher Schulte > Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 3:44 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: [Bulk] CentOs, speakup, and IRLP > > Hello all, > > I am looking at setting up an IRLP node for my amateur station. For those > who don't know, IRLP stands for internet radio linking project. Now a lot > of people will say that this is off topic, because of the ham radio aspect > of IRLP, but my question is very much speakup related. The IRLP hardware > requires a serial port to interface with the radio, and uses centOS linux. > It also requires a radio interfacing with a sound card. My question is, > being that I have no ISA slots in my motherboard, and only one comm port, > is > there anything that I can set up that might run on either a USB sound card > for speakup, or will I have to buy a second serial controller as well as a > serial speech synthesizer. Also, does speakup work on the cent os flavor > of > linux? As far as it goes, it appears that IRLP is not limitted > speciffically to cent OS, but I haven't been able to get an exact answer > on > that score. If there's anyone on the list that either can give me some > information regarding this > problem, I'd grately appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Chris Schulte > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
