Braille Lite 40

[Kamyar Cyrus Habib <maestro blastzone com>]

I just shelled out the $ for a Braille Lite 40.  I'll be going back east
for College in a month or so, and I decided it was a necesary tool.  I've
already started taking advantage of it by putting grade 2 translated books
on it, and reading them with the braille display.  Does anyone know if I
can use the unit more directly to access my Linux box?  Either of the two
folloing ways would be cool:

1. As a braille display...I read the Access HOWTO, and it said that brltty
no longer supports it.  Is there anyway other interface package I could
use?

2. As a Speech synth..I'm not really interested in using Emacspeak...but
is htere another Screen Reader that supports the Braille Lite 40 as a
hardware synth?

Feel free to reply privately, since I'm sure many of you will be borred by
the responses.  Thanks for your help,

Cyrus