[BRLTTY] Braille note MPower

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2013/01/04 at 14:37 -0600]

>Will this work with the bn driver or the hw driver?

The bn driver should be used for any BrailleNote model. The hw driver is for 
the Brailliant bi series.

>Will it work with usb to serial and/or usb? I'm thinking it would be usb to 
>serial.

The bn driver currently only supports serial. you can use a USB to serial 
adapter, of course, but you still need to tell brltty to use serial I/O.

>Do I use braille terminal or remote synthesizer? I'm thinking it would be 
>remote synthesizer but on the braille note it says "for screenreaders" at the 
>braille terminal menu item.

Use Braille Terminal. Remote Synthesizer is for using the BrailleNote as a 
speech device.

>I have a serial cable with female connectors at both ends and the same usb to 
>serial converter I've used with my braillelites. Is this correct?

A serial cable which has a female connector at both ends implies that it's a 
cross-over (or null-modem) cable, but that's not necessarily true. Do you know 
which type of serial cable it is?

I don't recall what kind of connector is on the BrailleNote itself. Does its 
documentation specify what kind of serial cable should be used?

>Is there something else I need to do, beyond the questions I've asked, to get 
>this working. I'm using it with my Mac in terminal with screen. I sort of 
>thought this would just "plug and play" so to speak but I think I was wrong!

There's another possible complication. There's a new KeySoft release which 
brltty doesn't yet support. It could, of course, but it doesn't because I 
haven't yet had access to a device which is running the new KeySoft protocol. 
Which release of KeySoft is on your BrailleNote?

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