having speak up installation problems

[Sean McMahon]

Mentioning the cable is a good suggestion.  If I disconnect the cable to my bns,
or if something like my cat walks across it and jiggles it enough to loose the
connection, speakup will stop speaking untill I restart the system.  Read
through the docs available on the netinst iso.  I believe speakup is built as
modules on this disk.  If that is the case, can't you just try to issue the
command modprobe speakup_bns?  You may have posted this several times already,
but for clarity, where exactly does the installer stop speaking?  Your other
option is to download and create the floppy immages available from the debian
ports status page.  It will say access floppy.  You have a choice ofusing the
rc2 immages for sarge, or the daily build immage which has some bug fixes after
rc2.  The debian installation manual explains how to create floppy disk immages.
If you're using windows, you can find and download ntrawrite.  This gave me
better luck then the plain command-line rawrite under a dosmode in windows.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: having speak up installation problems


> I had had this problem at one time, turned out to be a cabling issue.
> I don't remember if the cable I had was nullmodem and speakup needed a
> straightthrough cable or vise versa but putting a nullmodem adapter on
> the cable solved it in my case.
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:21:31PM -0800,
> hank wrote:
> > hello alex, and listers  did you  run in to trouble with the bns not
> > speaking during the debian installation?
> > I am running in to this and don't know if it is a problem that has a fix if
> > there is can some one please, please, please tell me what it is?
> > thanks
> > hank
> > aim:
> > hanksmith5
> > msn messenger:
> > hank at hanksmith.net
> >
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