-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:13:34PM -0400, James Collins wrote: > Hello, > > I have an external speech synthesizer that I have been fooling around with on > my host os. Mac os x 10.7 lion. > > In order to use the synthesizer on my mac I had to get a usb2serial adaptor > and install it's driver. The driver is based off of the ftdi chipset. My > usb2serial adaptor is located at /dev/cu.usbserial-FTKVMAFF on my mac. I have > used this path to send text to my synthesizer. > > I have virtualbox and freedos running as a guest os. There was a utilities > disk that came with the synthesizer, and I have copied some programs to my > freedos c drive. > > I wanted to run some of the utilities programs so I hooked up my speech > synthesizer connected to my MacBook pro laptop via a USB port, I am using my > usb2serial adaptor. And I have my synthesizer turned on. > > There is a test program included with the utilities. And when I run it it > says my synthesizer is not working properly. I have a doubletalk lt external > synthesizer. And like I said I verified that it is working. In the manual for > the synthesizer it says, that you pro ally don't need to install any > additional software. Although there are some special drivers like for windows > 98. > > I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with freedos? I > have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I see under ports a > section on serial ports, and also a section on USB. But I don't know which > would relate to my external speech synthesizer. > > I did click on the little USB icon when freedos was running and my usb2serial > device was listed but when I checked it a virtualbox window popped up saying > something about an error. > > I think it referred to ioctl but I can get more info on the exact error. > > Anyway, I just wondered if anyone had any info or help on getting my speech > synthesizer working? >
Again, freedos most likely doesn't have usb support. So, you need to present your usb to serial converter as a standard serial port to freedos. That means you need to use the serial port section of your guest's settings to set things up. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5nvpgACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBpsACgrO+WZpqVWsliArsVjsGz7O/1 H+EAnjC/6134cl23rl/7y2efg32Iz+i5 =gUXw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new level of agility. Learn what those decisions are and how to modernize your storage and backup environments for virtualization. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51434361/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
