[BRLTTY] Braille Lite with netbook

[acollins at icsmail.net]

Hello Cathy.  I have an Acer Espire One, and two different Braille
displays. An Alb bc640, and a TSI Power Braille.  As you know, the Acer
Espire One has now serial ports that the Braille Lite can connect to. 
This problem is Nop insurmountable however.  You can by a usb serial
addapter, plug it in to the Espire One, and then set up the serial port
on the Braille Lite, and then install brltty for Windows, and just open
notepad to let a sighted person type.  This solution would require the
sighted person to occasionally exit note pad, and then reenter it,
because you'll eventually run out of resources, disk space, memory, etc,
but it should work.  The last time I bought a usb serial addapter from
Best Buy, they cost about 30 dollars.

Hope this helps.

Gene



>My goal is to connect a Braille Lite to an Acer Aspire One netbook (or any lap
top) so that a sighted person can type via QWERTY keyboard and have a deafblind
 person read out the communication on the Braille Lite. (Face-to-face communica
tion) I'm having a hard time finding the right cable for one thing but I'm stil
l working on that. Besides that, would brltty help me in getting the two device
s to communicate with each other? Or am I meowing up the wrong cat tree? I sure
 could use some helpful feedback. Your website looks hopeful. Thx very much. 
>
>CathyM
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