Problems with Slackware.

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
    This would have everything to do with it. Speakup is not broken, this is
true. However, you need to access kernel modules, so you need the new
speakup.i disk. Exactly what commands are you using to get the floppy drive?
Slackware 8.0 is a more do-it-yourself distro, so it's not all set up for
you, try this to access the floppy disk:
mkdir /mnt/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0
   Note that jjust mount /mnt/floppy will *not* work without some setup. But
one thing at a time. ONce you've got the floppy drive mounted, copy the
kernel as follows:
cp /mnt/fd0/vmlinuz /
/sbin/lilo
   Reboot the system and login as root again, and run depmod -a to get the
module dependencies in order, and try running pppsetup again.
  Slackware also has the autoloader, it's just not preconfigured for you. As
for building a kernel, you don't have to but you might want to sometime in
the future.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with Slackware.


> Well, speakup itself works fine. It's everything else that doesn't work. I
> can not even access the floppy drive.