I would recommend going with slack 8.1. The official 8.0 speakup kernel did in fact not include ppp by default. You'll need to modprobe ppp, or activate it in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. Greg On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:38:02PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > ppp-go isn't working on the speakup kernel distributed in the slackware > 8.0.0 boxed set for me yet. The serial modem works since I can use > minicom to go out onto the internet and connect to accounts. I ran > pppsetup and answered all of the questions then tried running ppp-go -d > and was told either ppp wasn't installed in the kernel which is 2.2.19 > presently or was missing and this was a pppd error. This is a bit > different from zipspeak that ran on slackware 7.2. Are there some things > I need to do to get this working? ppp.o.gz is actually living in > /lib/modules/2.2.19/net now. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup