Speakup and phoebe

[ccrawford at acb.org]

Yes, we will write a letter to be sure.

-- charlie.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Janina Sajka 
wrote:

> Why not? Would ACB write a letter? I think the Director of Technology Research and Development at AFB will.
> 
> 
> Charles Crawford writes:
> > From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford at acb.org>
> > 
> > Is there someone to write at Redhat about this sillyness?
> > 
> > -- charlie.
> > At 10:34 PM 3/26/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > >As you've sadly discovered, Speakup is not included with Red Hat's current 
> > >beta called Phoebe, nor will it be included in the upcoming release of Red 
> > >Hat 9.0. We are
> > >hoping and expecting it to be restored to Red Hat in their next release, 
> > >but that doesn't help us now.
> > >
> > >The floppy diskette images from Red Hat 8.0 will not work for installing 
> > >9.0 or Phoebe. Bill Acker is working on a solution, but don't expect 
> > >anything for a few weeks.
> > >
> > >Meanwhile, if you have two machines available, you might be able to 
> > >install using telnet as follows:
> > >
> > >1.)     Boot the system on which you want to install using a non-speaking 
> > >boot floppy. You will press enter twice, I think--I will confirm this in a 
> > >forthcoming HOWTO.
> > >
> > >        Use the following command at the Boot> prompt:
> > >
> > >        text telnet
> > >
> > >2.)     Use your second machine's ping command as follows to discover the 
> > >address dhcp gave to your target machine.
> > >        ping -b x.y.z.255
> > >
> > >NOTE: You need to know what domain is providing dhcp in ytour network. For 
> > >example, on my system it's 192.168.10.*
> > >
> > >3.)     telnet to that address and install as usual.
> > >
> > >Of course, this won't take care of everyone. Please be patient.
> > >
> > >Bue Vester-Andersen writes:
> > >> From: Bue Vester-Andersen <listadr1 at dkblind.dk>
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> It seems like speakup is not going to be included with Phoebe. At least 
> > >it
> > >> is not in the current beta. I downloaded phoebe in order to try 
> > >gnopernicus,
> > >> but I need speakup to operate in text mode. Can I just use the boot disk
> > >> from redhat 8.0? Will there be a special speakup release of Phoebe or 
> > >will
> > >> speakup eventually be in the plain distribution.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards
> > >> Bue Vester-Andersen
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________
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> > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > >                                Janina Sajka, Director
> > >                                Technology Research and Development
> > >                                Governmental Relations Group
> > >                                American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > >
> > >Email: janina at afb.net           Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > >
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