On January 25, 2015, Karen Lewellen wrote: > The answer to this one will let me know if I should try removing > speakup before the extra help is here. I wouldn't bother. If it pesters the person helping you, it should be a fairly straightforward matter to just mute the audio, turn down the audio, disconnect the speakers, or plug in headphones that your friend isn't wearing. That is, even if speakup is running, it should be fairly easy to ignore it. > Does speakup give a verbal confirmation once removed? It depends on how you "remove" it. If you just disable its interaction by using the print-screen button, it may or may not announce that fact. Others here could confirm that. If you disable the speakup module with "sudo rmmod ...", you wouldn't get any sort of warning. > The test fir ip information is clear so it will be simply a matter > of noting the results..assuming there are any. If the machine is attached to the router via the network cable and booted up, a simple "ifconfig" should let you know the IP address it has. If you want just the IP addresses, you can limit it with /sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr" If all goes according to plan, you should likely get back something like inet addr:192.168.1.64 followed by additional information about the broadcast address and network mask. The person setting up the machine may have set it up to make dial-up easy, but they would have had to go out of their way to disable regular ethernet-card networking. Unfortunately, the checks differ depending on whether "network-manager" is installed. You can check this with dpkg --get-selections | grep network-manager If it comes back with one or more resuts and says "install" after it, you have Network Manager installed. You can then use nmcli con list to list any active connections. Hopefully it will list your wired connection. If you *don't* have network manager installed, you should be able to peek in /etc/network/interfaces which should have a line something like iface eth0 inet dhcp in it which would instruct it to use your first ethernet card (eth0) to get a DHCP address for internet communications. I'm eager to get you over this hurdle so you can actually have fun with the box rather than fighting with it. (grins) -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list