somewhat OT, talkingArch and serial to USB adaptors

[Chris Moore]

Rob,
Just saw your msg about braille display.  Can't you poke around in the 
/dev directory to determine which com port is assigned to your display?
ls /dev/tty*

Chris

On 6/4/2013 5:16 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I can't get brltty to load using my serial to USB adapter, and this is kind of critical since I need my braille.. The adapter shows up in the lsusb command, as  a keyspan something or other. I knew that the adapter was called something like that, so i did
> lsusb | grep -i keyspan
> and it turned up as device 0:03 or something like that. I should've saved the output, sigh, oops. Anyway, i know it's there, which is the important part.
> So I run the command
> brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
> or 1 2 3, just to make sure.
> and nothing comes up on the display.
>
> Was brltty compiled for this cd without the ability to find the USB adapter? Or is something else going on.
> On the upside, I did get speech to happen with a USB sound card. BUt i need my braille too. If need be, I can rummage in the scary dark den of iniquity known as my garage and dig out another PCI card with a serial port on it, but I'd like to take the easy road first.
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