well, as I have no intention of ever needing to run speakup directly from
this machine, may as well get rid of it now.
if there is enough of an Ethernet configuration for me to TELNET into the he
box from here, the only use I intend making of this box at all, the last
thing I would desire is having to deal with
speakup on top of my own speech.
The rest of your specific instructions are in another amil.
The person doing this is no Linux person and no computer person in general.
I intend giving them this, running the two commands you provided before.
I have no idea why the box would not be connected to my dsl modem and
rooter to run the test. that is the only way it can be done.
The rest of this is really overkill.
Thanks,
Kare
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Tim Chase wrote:
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
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