If you want the easiest way to get a speakup enabled Redhat kernel, point your favorite ftp client--on whatever OS and networked computer you do use--to: ftp://speakup.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.1 and download Redhat 7.1 with speakup already compiled in. Easiest? I think so--even though downloading ISO images takes time. There are many reasons why your attempts to patch a source tree with speakup may have failed. The fact of the matter is that speakup does compile 2.4.X kernels. I'm currently running a post Redhat 7.1 with one of Bill's kernels--2.4.7 to be more precise. Also, if you can't, or don't want to download an entire iso, just get the boot floppy image and rawrite. This will give you a speakup enabled kernel. Ward wrote: > Ok, this helps, and doesn't help. The computer in question does not have a > connection to the internet, and won't have one. > How can I just get the current cvs, and apply it with out having to strip > the computer apart, install a modem, setup a internet connection, apply the > cvs, and then take the modem back out, and put it back in the machine I took > it from. > Why can't Kirk or someone put the cvs patches somewhere where I can download > the latestSpeakup, already patched, and patch the kernel from that? > Why does this have to be so hard. The way it looks to me I will have to blow > away another machine just to make a dumb kernel for a machine that has been > a stand alone Linux box. > I relize this might be an unusual situation, but I don't use Linux as my > primary operating system, and thus it doesn't get all of the attention > others would put into it. However, I have to get these cvs patches without > going through heck to apply them. > Also the person I am making the kernel for wants to have the Speakup source > with the current CVS applied, and so far I see nothing like that. > Ok, any help from here would be vary welcome. Thanks, and please help me out > with this one. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at 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
