Speakup and 2.6.24.4

[Robert Spangler]

Hello all,

I am having trouble with patching Speakup into 2.6.24.4.  I thought I got 
around this at one time before but not sure what is happening now.

First, I got the tarball for linux-2.6.24.4, untarred it into /usr/src and 
created a linux symlink.  (Wasn't sure if I needed to do this or not).  I 
then checked out speakup from the git tree at linux-speakup.org into 
/usr/src/speakup.  I switched to this directory and then did ./install 
/usr/src/linux.  It installed, giving a couple of cp errors saying that 
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup wasn't a directory but these are OK 
since the patches did succeed.  Then, when I switched to the kernel 
directory and did make menuconfig, I got an error about Kconfig not being 
found in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup.  To see what would happen, I 
did touch on that file to create it, then ran menuconfig and it worked; 
however, I could not find Speakup Console Speech in the Device Drivers 
section.  Any idea what's going on here?  Also, upon doing a make mrproper, 
it bitched that /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/Makefile couldn't be 
found.  I assume that a few of these have to do with the speakup dir not 
being under the linux source tree but this was not indicated as required in 
the installation instructions and the Kconfig file doesn't exist in the 
speakup directory anyways.

Thanks,
Robby