No wonder I had problems installing from the base system of debian. I downloaded the base drivers and disks. I bet the disks were for 2.2.14 and the base/drivers were 2.2.17, so I just compiled up a 2.2.15 kernel and it's modules. At 07:52 AM 8/29/00 -0400, you wrote: >greetings all. does anyone have a 2.2.17 kernel with speakup built-in to >it. I downloaded and created the three cds of the debian 2.2 release which >is using the kernel 2.2.17. However, the disks on the speakup site are for >2.2.14. this causes all sorts of errors with modules when installting from >my 2.2.17 cds. I also tried installing with linux console=ttyS0 and >figured I could build a kernel with speakup in it later but it appears that >the supplied kernels on the debian cds don't have support for a console on >a serial port. > >as you can tell, I am fairly new at all this so any ideas would be >appreciated. > thanks. brian. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >