speakup, grml and braille blazer

[Garrett Klein]

Cody, you don't want a null-modem with an rj11 connector on it, it
should have a female connector on one end and a male on the other.

Garrett
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:19 -0700, Cody Hurst wrote:
> I'm not quite understanding the logic behind the null modem, but ok.  
> When I plug the rj11 end of the cable to the pc, how do I tell speakup  
> to look on teh modem port if linux by default is in compatible with  
> most modems?
> 	
> On May 19, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 
> > put a gender changer on the blazer to change the serial port from  
> > female to
> > male on the blazer.
> > plug a 25-pin female to 9-pin mail into the converter.
> > plug the null modem from converter to pc.
> >
> > You could also get a 25-pin null modem cable; gender bend the blazer  
> > end
> > then convert it down to 9-pin on the pc end.
> >
> > the cable needs to be null modem and you need things of the right  
> > gender as
> > the port on the blazer for serial is female.
> > Regards, Kerry.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cody Hurst" <churst35 at verizon.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca 
> > >
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: speakup, grml and braille blazer
> >
> >
> > Well I have a db9 null modem cable, but how would I do this
> > configuration? the db9 end will not fit on the blazer and vice versa.
> > More insight on this would greatly be appreciated.
> > On May 19, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> >
> >> the blazer requires a null modem cable to connect it to the computer
> >> not a
> >> straight through serial cable.
> >> Regards, Kerry.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Cody Hurst" <churst35 at verizon.net>
> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >>>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:03 AM
> >> Subject: speakup, grml and braille blazer
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >>  I just realized I could whip up an external synth with a db25
> >> serial cable, a converter and a db9 serial cable, however when I boot
> >> grml I use this boot command
> >>
> >> grml speakup_synth=bns, ttyS0 and get no speech. On the blazer's
> >> speech config menu I set it from parallel to serial. however I tried
> >> starting grml with it on serial and parallel and still no speech. I
> >> know this can be done but I just don't know how. I'd like to know  
> >> what
> >> I"m doing wrong here. Thanks for any hep.
> >>
> >> Cody
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