At 12:15 PM 9/22/2005, Thomas Stivers wrote: >Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list. > >deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./ > >Do an apt-get update and then apt-get install >linux-image-2.6.12-1-speakup-686 and you should be good to go. Let the >list know if you have problems with that kernel and be sure to hang on >to your old kernel incase the new one blows up. It works. It took me a long time to get around to trying it because the machine I am working on had no network connection. No driver for the NIC. Anyway, I got that fixed and gave your suggestion a try. At first it didn't work. ># apt-get install linux-image-2.6.12-1-speakup-686 .... p-686_2.6.12-1_i386.deb) ... You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.6.12-1-speakup-686) but you do not seem to have a /usr/sbin/mkinitrd command. This will break the installation, unless initrd-tools are also being installed right now. # apt-get install initrd-tools initrd.tools is already the latest version # which mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd Huh? It says it's not there yet it is. Try it again... And again... Eventually it just worked. I have no idea what funny thing I did to fix it. Then i had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst extensively. This is the first time I've ever made more than single character changes to that file. But no problems there. So it's chattering away right now reading the boot messages. Thanks a lot!
