[BRLTTY] problem with braille edge on powerpc machine running debian wheezy

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2014/08/22 at 14:22 -0500]

>This old powerpc mac mini works fine with my usb-serial-using braillelite40. 
>But I was hoping to get my Hims Braille Edge to run on all my machines and 
>then use a usb switch to switch between machines. I tried using the braille 
>edge when I installed wheezy but it didn't seem to work so I used the 
>braillelite instead. Once installed, I still couldn't get the braillelite to 
>work with wheezy. After I had installed the latest version with git I tried 
>again and ran a debug log. It seems like the problem is a usb problem. I 
>wasn't running this on a switch but just with the braille edge plugged into 
>the linux machine. I'm attaching the log to see whether there is more I should 
>try to do. The braille edge is working fine on my Macs but I don't have 
>another linux machine to try it on so the problem could just be that I'm not 
>going to get it to work with the old powerpc machine. As I said before it 
>works with the braillelite and also a usb keyboard works with it. If anybody 
>has any suggestions or wants to just tell me this isn't going to work with 
>this machine, I'd appreciate the input.

The PowerPC might be running in big endian mode. I suppose it's possible that 
our code has some big endian glithces in it. Please log with:

   -ldebug,usb,inpkts,outpkts

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