> need to get telnet or some sort of service up and running If you are running inetd on that linux server, you may need to edit the /etc/inetd.conf and make sure this line is not commented out: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/tcpd in.telnetd You cannot telnet in as root user. So you must create a userid for yourself before trying to telnet in from windows. You can do useradd ryan or if that doesn't work try adduser ryan then set the password passwd ryan > for my roomate to transfer the files from his windows box to my HD. Telnet allows a login session but not file transfer. There is also a line for ftp in /etc/inetd.conf, make sure it is not commented out ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd proftpd Just like telnet, you can't login with ftp as root, so you will use the ryan login. You many need to check your init scripts in /etc/rc.d to make sure that inetd, telnet, and ftp are started during initialization. The details of this depends on your distribution. Before even looking at that though, set the two machines on the same subnet, and trying doing the telnet and ftp into the linux box. It may work if the init scripts are starting the services. > After we get telnet set up how would I go about installing speakup > and or applying the patches to the kernel. Use the speakup 1.5 before trying the cvs stuff. Extract the speakup file in /usr/src. Then cd to the speakup directory, and run the install program to patch the kernel source, but doing ./install > /usr/src and didnt find a folder that reads linux? You may not have the linux kernel source installed. Try doing this: ls -l /usr/src/linux* If you see no linux-2.4.xx and no linux, then you don't have the source installed. Install the source and then make sure that there is a link for /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.4.xx. If the link doesn't exist, but the linux source does, create the link like this: cd /usr/src ln -s linux-2.4.25 linux (use your specific kernel rev for that command) With the linux source installed, after running the ./install within the /usr/src/speakup-1.5 directory, you need to compile the kernel. You need to do something like this: make config make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install When the make config is run, there will new options in console drivers for speakup. If you compile your specific syth module into the kernel (statically, not as module), then it should work on boot. See the speakup docs that are inside the speakup dir for more information. You might want to redirect the output of the kernel build as kirk describes in his docs. If you get stuck, ask questions. You may also be able to find a kernel with speakup built in already. If you ask for help later, mention which distribution of linux you are using (redhat, fedora, slackware, debian, or ?). -- Doug
