Hi all, because there is no serial port on my computer, I hlve to connect my old Handytech Modular 40 by means of a prolific usb-serial converter. Sadly, brltty doesn't find the braille device searching the usb bus, regardless whether pl2303 (the kernel module for teh prolific usb-serial converter) is loaded or not. Loading pl2303 and accessing the braille device thgough the serial interface /dev/ttyUSB?, however, works perfectly well. The reason why I'd like to use the usb interface rather than the serial interface is that the braille device is not guaranteed to show up as ttyUSB0 all the time due to race conditions and similar issues. It works most of the time and if there really is no way to use the usb interface of brltty in this case, a bit of slightly more sophisticated udev scripting will very likely do the job. Still, I thought I'd ask first.
Now, just for the fun of it, I tried to connect my Braille Star using that very same prolific usb-serial converter rather than its internal FTDI connector. Its behaviour was exactly the same as described above. This made me ask the question in the subject line, i.e., whether the vendor and product id of the internal FTDI converter is hard coded somewhere in the Handytech driver so brltty doesn't even bother probing the prolific device for a Handytech braille display. Regars, Elias _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty