Any experience w/ Debian Woody Speakup Packages?

[Hugh Esco]

OK.  Sound is now working.  Emacspeak is working again.  I've got the 
Festival server invoking on boot up.  I successfully ran a (SayText 
"hello") command and got synthesized speech out of Festival.  The last, I 
think, issue remaining to having Speakup work for me at bootup is invoking 
"middleware" in the /etc/init.d/ scripts.

Using find, which and locate indicates that I have only one possible 
executable named middleware that the instructions at:
         http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/installation_instructions.txt
might be referring to.

That is:
         /usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware/middleware

>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ file middleware
>middleware: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
>GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$ ./middleware
>Failed to open file: No such device
>hesco at biko:/usr/src/speakup-1.5/middleware$

I had the same error messages when I attempted to invoke this as root, and 
when I chown root:audio on /dev/usrdev.  . . . and when I chmod 664 to that 
device.  (I changed those back, after they didn't work).

So, I'm lost.  I've exhausted anything I would know how to try.  Still its 
been a good night.  I now have sound and networking back on this machine.

Its after 2am here in Georgia.  I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, before I 
start munging up the works again.  Any clues for moving forward toward 
giving me a working speakup installation would be greatly 
appreciated.  I'll check this list in the morning to see if I can get this 
going.

Thanks,
-- Hugh Esco