Hi all,
Dear Rylan,
I am having the same situation and I can confirm that my Tsi navigator
40 cell display works with the pb40 serial driver so tje pb80 driver has
to work with the 80 cell modell as well.
I tried my device with an older version of jfw, the 6.20 version which
had floppy authorization and contains the old serial driver.
I could drive my navigator with a usb-serial adapter, made by Aten
international. Perhaps it has an uc232 chip in it.
What you can do now to get the pb40 serial driver in jaws15 32 bit is to
ask freedom for a special build which includes the driver.
You need to have an authorized Jaws to request this special build.
I have an ilm code, and I got the build, and tested it, but
despite the pb40serial shows up among the braille displays which you can
add to jaws the driver won't work till you authorize your product.
One more important thing: You can only use this driver in a 32bit
edition of Jfw.
I don't unhderstand why Fs did it with the serial driver, I think it's
really annoying as notebooks don't have parallel ports, plus it is
almost impossible to make an usb to parallel bridge which is a real lpt1
port.
Currently I and my teacher repairing a Navigator40, so I am aware of
these issues.
If you have any questions, write to me in e-mail.
Sorry for my not too perfect English.
Greetings,
Istvan
2014.04.09. 13:51 keltezéssel, Mike O'Brien írta:
Hi
Your understanding is correct. Any 16 bit program will not run on a 64 bit
Windows system.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 02:49
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Where does Jaws store its braille display drivers?
Hi,
I understand (having asked someone who's technically fairly knowledgeable, a
similar question) that it's very iffy. It might, or might not, work in the
case of older braille displays. Another thing is that, they were at most
16-bit, which would work on 32-bit OS's but certainly not on 64-bit
(according to my understanding).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike O'Brien" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Where does Jaws store its braille display drivers?
Hi
I don't know if this would work for Braille displays. But on my
Windows 7 machine now running JAWS 15, with no serial ports, I am
using a Dectalk Express sybthesizer which plugs into a serial port. I
bought a serial to USB converter and plugged the serial adaptor of the
synthesizer into one end and the other end into a USB port on the
machine. I bought the adaptor on Amazon. The one I got is made by
TrendNet. But if JAWS has actually blocked serial Braille displays,
the block would most likely be somewhere outside of the driver itself.
You could ask FS if what you want to do is possible and why they
blocked them after JAWS 11.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]]
On
Behalf Of Rylan Vroom
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 04:07
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Where does Jaws store its braille display
drivers?
Hey folks, I'm looking into grabbing an old TSI navigator because its
the cheapest way for me to get my hands on an 80 character braille
display. I've been doing some research and discovered that the
navigator uses the Power Braille communications protocol and should,
therefore work with jaws's powerbraille driver. I then discovered that
FS has disabled use of the powerbraille displays through a serial port
as of jaws version 11. The navigator doesn't have a parallel port and
neither do any of my computers. Anyone know if its possible to hack
out the PB driver from jaws 11 and put it to work with jaws 14?
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