Elba list and questions
John covici
covici at ccs.covici.com
Mon Mar 14 14:50:02 UTC 2005
The list did receive your message -- maybe no one knew how to answer
it. You should contact the technical support phone number to find out
more information. I can tell you one thing, no usb storage is
supported ta all since this is a slave device and the usb is not
supported even as a slave.
on Monday 03/14/2005 peter.rayner at cea.fr(peter.rayner at cea.fr) wrote
> Like several others here I'm noticing a distinct lack of response from
> the elba discussion list. I received the usual confirmation of my
> message last week but haven't seen a single item on the list.
> I'll ask the same questions here ... it's only technically "on topic"
> since the beast runs linux underneath but I acknowledge there's a
> better list ... if it works. Oh, the list owner hasn't responded
> either.
>
> Here's my questions:
> 1) I ordered, I hope, both English and French for the machine. I
> assumed this would cover both speech synthesis and braille. But I
> don't see language options in the braille set-up. Can I enter and
> read Grade II braille in more than one language?
> If not, I would like to change this from French to English since I can
> scarcely read French grade II yet anyway. If necessary, is this
> possible at the user level or do I need help from Papenmeier and/or
> the local distributor? I also would not mind changing the language
> of interaction from French to English. I'm used to calling this the
> "locale" and know how to set it on other distributions of linux but it
> didn't seem to work here.
> 2) USB keys? I didn't see these in the manual as among the supported
> mass storage options. They are my preferred option though. Are they
> supported?
> 3) Wireless. I'm guessing the version of the manual I have is not
> up-to-date. Does anyone know a list of currently made and supported
> wireless cards?
> 4) USB ADSL modems. This is very unlikely. I note pppoe is supported
> but how about devices like the eagle-usb-based modems often supplied
> with ADSL accounts, at least in France. I've only just got these to
> work on my normal linux box so am not optimistic here.
> 5) Site for updates. When I boot up my machine says
> elba rev 123
> my manual is for 1.41 and people are talking about a more recent
> update. I couldn't find this on the papenmeier site and the manual
> wasn't forthcoming about *where* one found these.
> Again, apologies for the marginal topic-group match and people should
> perhaps reply to me off-line.
> regards
> Peter
>
>
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