hello,
I am not about to ask the irlp people this but being a want to do this at 
some point too, I'm wondering if the board they sell would work with 
slackware or debian or something that has speech, i mean they say you have 
to use what they send but, i don't see why you would absolutely have to, I 
would be interested to know too about using slackware instead with the board 
or, i may just say to heck with it and try it when the time comes
matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Son" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: i r l p and echo link


> Hello.
> I know there are some blind hams out there who are successfully running 
> echo
> link nodes and I would like to know if there are any blind hams running i 
> r
> l p nodes as well?
> I r l p runs on linux and this I know could pose an access problem for the
> computer users trying to set up an i r l p node.
> As far as I know the trimmed down version of linux that one recieves when
> setting up an i r l p node does not have any speech and so how does one 
> get
> around this problem?
>
> I know at one time in a discussion with an i r l p node sysop, I found out
> that his linux computer did not have a screen or keyboard connected and 
> that
> he was using a termenal type program on an xp machine to remotely access 
> his
> linux computer to make sound card adjustments and change other settings on
> the linux machine.
> I wondered right then if those windows programs were accessable to screen
> readers.
> basically if any one here is running an i r l p node I want to know how 
> you
> do it as a blind sysop.
> At some future date I may be intrested in doing this.
> I know Echolink is a little easyer to deal with but I like a little bit of 
> a
> chalange.
> Tracy kk4ql.
>