[Bulk] CentOs, speakup, and IRLP

[Christopher Schulte]

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 at yahoo.com>
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
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