Re: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, John.
I believe it is possible to use your Braille Lite, but you require a
terminal application for your Braille Lite. I think there use to be one
called braille term or something like that for the BNS, TNS, and Braille
Lite. I'm not up to speed on those note takers any more, and don't know what
is currently offered for them.
However, your serial port settings are correct, but you need to have a
terminal application listening on your Braille Lite's serial port, and you
will need to launch Red Hat's installer with the command:

linux text console=ttyS0

Make sure you have the proper cabling, because you do need some cables, and
a null modem between your Braille Lite and the pc with Linux going on it.
Hth.

----- Original Message -----
From: John J. Boyer <director chpi org>
To: Thomas D. Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>
Cc: Rich Caloggero <rjc MIT EDU>; Gnome Accessibility List
<gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible


> Thomas,
>
> I will be installing a newer version of Redhat at some point. I'm guessing
> I could just use my braille Lite as a dumb terminal connected to a serial
> port. My one question is what parameters to set it to. I would want to
> It is now set to 9600,n,8,1.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>  On Thu, 29 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > Hello, Rich.
> > Ok, you really really should get a newer version of Red Hat not only for
> > installs like this, but for security as well as other reasons.
> > What applications are you worried about compatibility issues with? I
have
> > both a 8.0 system and a 9.0 system which I could test these applications
> > with, or recompile them on to see if they will work on newer versions of
RH.
> > As for sighted assistence Red Hat can be installed by you if you have a
> > second computer to read the prompts. For example:
> > I've kept on hand an old 486 with Jaws for dos and the commo terminal
> > software which I hook up to the Linux computers serial port, and read
the
> > install prompts from the IBM 486 with win 95 on it.
> > If you want to use your Windows screen reader to do the install I
suggest
> > using Terraterm Pro although I still think the dos screen reader commo
does
> > just a little better job.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rich Caloggero <rjc MIT EDU>
> > To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:50 PM
> > Subject: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible
> >
> >
> > > I think it came with Gnome 1.4 or something. I tried garnome and
looked at
> > > CVS, but so many things need to be updated and I just don't know that
much
> > > about linux... Is this a hopeless task? The reason I'm not doing
something
> > > more sane, like updating to Redhat 8 or 9 first is that:
> > > 1. I've got stuff running on the machine which I don't want to chance
on
> > > breaking
> > > 2. Can't do without sighted assistance, cuz I don't have speakup or
> > > anything - I login from windows and use it remotely
> > >
> > > Got any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanx so much in advance...
> > >
> > >                     Rich
> > >
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