Device Mangler? Hmmm! I know what that is; that's me, with a hammer, when the thing doesn't work rather!!! Bob and Maxy-wax
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sarah Cranston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:55:28 -0500 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braille terminal >I don't think Device Mangler will have the serial connection in it. I don't >know about the parallel port. >Here's a stupid question: Has ActiveSync been running? Also, have you put the >BrailleNote in "remote synthesizer" mode? Told you they were stupid >questions. Smile! >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of val smith >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:44 PM >To: Braillenote List >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braille terminal >Hi Susie >the cable is fine because I got my Apollo 2 to work on it without problem. >I am quite familiar with device mangler, if an item is open it often means >trouble. I think you might have a point about recognising the device >because I can not carry out active sink either. It seems to check com 4 and >the USB. The port on the braille note is okay because my palm pilot works >fine. >cheers >Val >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Susan Stageberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:24 PM >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braille terminal >You might try looking in your control panel under Device Manager (we >call it Device Mangler) and see if the computer knows the device and the >port are there. I can't be more specific since I don't do this every >day. lpt1 is certainly an option, and if that works, then don't fix it! >Could your serial cable have a problem perhaps? I'm puzzled since my >experience with using BrailleNote as a display is that it's a snap to >hook up and use, especially in later versions of JAWS. >Susie >Susie Stageberg >Project ASSIST with Windows >Iowa Department for the Blind >(515) 281-1351 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of val smith >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:28 PM >To: Braillenote List >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braille terminal >Hi Susie >I carried out the procedure you described to set up the braille note, >and got fed up hearing that error message, so unchecked it. So when I >upgraded the braille note and jaws I put it back on to see if I stil got >the error message. I suppose if you do not get the message the braille >works. When I installed the new keynote driver and went into jaws >synths, it looked promising because there was an additional synth keynot >gold and braille note. It still did not work. So I checked out the >JFW.ini and noticed that it did not have the port information which I >added. I still did not have any luck and think I might try going >through lpt1, what do you think? cheers Val ps regarding pdf files I >find kurzweil a great file converter. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Susan Stageberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:53 PM >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braille terminal >Val, I can answer one of your questions. The message about "unable to >initialize Braille driver" comes up because of a check box that is >checked under Braille options in JAWS. If you uncheck that, you won't >get that annoying message. >As for the rest of it, I assume you have followed all the usual steps: >you've gone into JAWS Braille options and added the BrailleNote as a >display; you arrow to it in the list and then press the Space bar to >check it. Tab to OK, press Enter. Then unload JAWS, hook up the >BrailleNote, set it in Terminal mode (from the Main Menu, press T.) Now >start JAWS and you should have Braille. >As for the synthesizer piece of this, you say you have installed the >driver that allows the BrailleNote to be used as a synthesizer under >JAWS. Somebody else may have to step in here, as it sounds to me like >you've done what needs doing. >Susie >Susie Stageberg >Project ASSIST with Windows >Iowa Department for the Blind >(515) 281-1351 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of val smith >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:52 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Braillenote] braille terminal >Hi listers >I am new to the list so apologise in advance if this subject has been >covered. The problem I am having is setting up my braille note 6.1as a >synth and a braille terminal with my Jaws screen reader . I have tried >at least 3 different machines with different operating systems. I have >tried the new driver from the humanware web site. Then upgraded my Jaws >up to 6.2 and still no luck. I checked the com 1 with another external >synth apollo 2 and it works fine. I tried loading jaws after start up >but it comes up with a message "could not initialise braille driver". I >am out of ideas any suggestions would be gratefully received. PS thanks >to Sharon for telling me about this list. cheers Val ___ To leave the >BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
