Your installation gave you a non-talking kernel because you got your installation files from a source which does not include speakup in the files it distributes.This can be fixed, but what you did is certainly not the way to go about it. The linux kernel on the floppy is vastly stripped down in order to fit on a floppy. The elements that are stripped out are not superfluous, as you've now discovered. My advice is to bite the bullet, and get a current Redhat installation set with speakup included and do the install again. To take this approach, use anonymous ftp to: >From kirk@braille.uwo.ca Sun Oct 14 15:13:37 2001 From: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> I am not sure just how far through the process he is but, Bill has been moving the redhat installation disks and all back over to linux-speakup.org. You should be able to get at least a portion of the redhat stuff for 7.2 therefore from ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/. Another, perhaps not quite as satisfactory but still servicable, approach to repairing your situation would be to go to the above noted site and download the relevant kernel rpms -- a much smaller download -- and use rpm to install talking ikernels. Least satisfactory of all would be to compile a new kernel from sources after patching the kernel source with speakup via cvs. If you don't understand the last two approaches, do yourself a favor and bite the bullet as suggested. On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Brent Harding wrote: > I now get an error when booting rh 7.1 that says that it can't write the > module file needed by depmod. That's probably because my system has the > boot disk kernel, the D copied a nontalking kernel, so I overwrote it with > the boot disk one, but it's looking for modules in the wrong place. How do > I fix this. I'll need modules to get my modem going. Next, how do I get > linux to shut my system down just like windows does? This machine has one > of those soft power controls, where my old one had a regular switch. How do > I fix this so it starts working? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp