Hi, there wre several factors why speakup was pulled, but one of the factors as I understand it was speakup screwed up the French keymap. I also heard people had problems building the kernels from source, and Red Hat ended up deciding to pull it. I don't know the entire story on who, what, where, and why speakup was pulled, but I heard it was hotly debated. Two solutions at this point is if you know how to make kickstart files you can install sRed Hat via kickstart install. I've done it several times and is a good solution if speakup is not present. Another option is to link two computers together via a serial connection and pass the command: text console=ttyS0 to it, and do it via terminal connection.
