installing debian with speakup

Brent Harding bharding at mail.ufw2.com
Tue Aug 29 21:45:52 EDT 2000


No wonder I had problems installing from the base system of debian. I
downloaded the base drivers and disks. I bet the disks were for 2.2.14 and
the base/drivers were 2.2.17, so I just compiled up a 2.2.15 kernel and
it's modules.
At 07:52 AM 8/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>greetings all. does anyone have a 2.2.17 kernel with speakup built-in to
>it.  I downloaded and created the three cds of the debian 2.2 release which
>is using the kernel 2.2.17.  However, the disks on the speakup site are for
>2.2.14.  this causes all sorts of errors with modules when installting from
>my 2.2.17 cds.  I also tried installing with linux console=ttyS0 and
>figured I could build a kernel with speakup in it later but it appears that
>the supplied kernels on the debian cds don't have support for a console on
>a serial port.
>
>as you can tell, I am fairly new at all this so any ideas would be
>appreciated.
> thanks.  brian.
>
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