[BRLTTY] usb to serial problems

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/04/29 at 08:19 +1000]

>OK, so this is confusing me, 

i'm not surprised. This stuff isn't very straight forward.

>what should I ask for next time I go to the shop?

I assume the USB->Serial converter has a male conector on it. Is that correct?

What kind of connector is on the BrailleNote?

Didn't the BrailleNote come with a serial cable?

>brltty: checking braille device: serial:ttyUSB1
>brltty: checking for braille driver: bn
>brltty: initializing braille driver: bn -> serial:ttyUSB1
>brltty: cannot open serial device: /dev/ttyUSB1: No such file or directory
>brltty: braille driver initialization failed: bn -> serial:ttyUSB1
>brltty: braille driver not found

Exactly as expected if it's now on ttyUSB0.

>brltty: checking braille device: serial:ttyUSB0
>brltty: checking for braille driver: bn
>brltty: initializing braille driver: bn -> serial:ttyUSB0
>brltty: serial device opened: /dev/ttyUSB0: fd=8
>brltty: timeout after 100 milliseconds
>brltty: braille driver initialization failed: bn -> serial:ttyUSB0
>brltty: braille driver not found

This (a timeout, i.e. no response) could easily be a serial cable mismatch 
problem.

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