Elba list and questions

[John J. Boyer]

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 at cea.fr 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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