Hiya, I'm not aware of NPTL or anything like that. So I'm going to assume I don't need the headers package, nor the modules for that matter since I'll be custom compiling anyway. Is this accurate? Thanks, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Slackware: kernel confusion > Zach, > > Slackware 11 does have 2.6.17 kernel, the source, headers, module > and kernel are available here: > > http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/ > > Please note the warning about headers > http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-headers.WARNING > > This kernel is not a speakup kernel, but it's easy to patch it for > speakup. If you want the 2.6.x kernel headers, then grab them > from the above, you could get the source for 2.6.21 instead > from kernel.org and patch that for speakup. Follow the > speakup install instructions, they are not difficult. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >