speakup and gentoo kernels

[Alex Snow]

I may do a dual boot with win98 and gentoo on one of my extra boxes 
just to test it out.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:47:38PM -0500, Garrett 
Klein wrote:
> Gentoo sounds really cool, with its source downloading and all, there's just
> one slight problem... I can't access the net with Linux, because I paid $45
> for an over-priced WinModem and only have one serial port, which I need to
> change to get internet working under Linux.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup and gentoo kernels
> 
> 
> > Alex, it's a bit of both. Basically what the livecd does is give you a
> mini os so to speak so that you can  install gentoo. It provides you with
> the ability to ssh if you need to, provides youw ith links for a web
> browser, an irc client, and a couple of other things that you may need. What
> I also like about this is that I can boot the cd on a machine, set the root
> password, and start ssh. From there, I can  ssh into the box I just booted,
> and do the install remotely if I choose.
> >
> > You can find gentoo instructions here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
> > The docs do not tell you how to get the speakup kernel to  boot, from what
> I've been told,  once it's conciddered stable, then they will include a
> small section on how to get the cd to boot with speakup. I've done about 6
> or 8 installs with this lived, heh, so I can tell you how to get it ggoing
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
> >
> > > so is this the actual install cd or is this just a live bootable cd?
> > > On
> > > Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:58:47AM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote:
> > > > Hi guys!
> > > >
> > > > As I mentioned before, speakup is nowin the gentoo install cd's
> (livecd's) Current  it is in the x86 experimental livecd.
> > > >
> > > > Also last night speakup was  patched into the 'gentoo-dev-sources'
> kernel. If things go as planned, this kernel will eventually become the
> standard gentoo-sources kernel.
> > > >
> > > > This is a 2.6.0 kernel patched with the  latest speakup cvs patch.
> >From what I can tell, it works very nicely.
> > > >
> > > > If any of you are using gentoo, or want to use it, please give me any
> feedback that you may have on the kernel or livecd.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
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