I did something stupid now there is no speech

[Sean M McMahon]

I thought I was upgrading the speakup on my system because I installed the 
deb kernel-image-2.4.26-speakup but I think maybe I just gave grub a new 
kernel to screw with me.  Now the 2.4.24-1-speakup image which came up 
talking nicely is not my default kernel.  I don't know what is.  Is there 
a way to get speakup up and talking after I boot up and log-in?  What do I 
type at the boot prompt if I have to wait till then to start speakup?  How 
do I edit my menu.lst or other files to make this system work again? 
Finally, If none of that works, can I telnet into this system, remove the 
kernel image and will the system work?  I'm not on my own domain or 
anything, but when I typed in the machine name, I couldn't get a telnet 
connection.  I don't know if there is something else I need to type for 
that part, the machines are both connected to my dsl modem which has a 
built-in router. Sean