The latest speakup kernel available is at 2.6.12-1. To get it edit your /etc/sources.list and add a line that reads: deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel/ ./ then save the /etc/sources.list file. Then aptitude update or apt-get update whichever you use. Then do aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade. Once that's done you're ready to go for the kernel. It's going to be either aptitude install or apt-get install and the name of the package you want. If you have a pentium 3 like I do, you want to use -686 for the architecture part of this. What I got was linux-image-2.6.12-1-speakup-686 and after that installed I did a reboot since we're still using the old kernel we want to see if the new one works before wiping the old one out. I rebooted and all came up talking with the new 2.6.12 kernel identification. So I did apt-get remove --purge kernel-2.6.8-2 and that wiped out the kernel but left the modules in place. There might have been a way to clear the old modules off the disk with the same apt-get command but I didn't know what the modules package name was at the time so didn't do that. The 2.6.12-speakup series is obsolete now so far as the debian security team is concerned but for now it's the most up-to-date available for download. With kernels I've been told "there is no such thing as a shortcut". Those can most easily be built using succeeding versions and not skipping versions since that'show sighted kernel builders usually do it; that way they have the version just behind this one to compare against when bugs crop up.
