[Bulk] CentOs, speakup, and IRLP

[Jim Kutsch]

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
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