adding speakup to server distros

adding speakup to server distros

[brian Moore]

Greetings all.  Has anyone been successful at adding speakup to any of
the pre-built server linux distros?  I am currently using a program
called sme server formerly e-smith from Mitel.  http://www.e-smith.org
to run my network at home and provide mail, ftp, etc for my domain.  I
realize I could use standard distros to do the same  thing but I am not
good enough yet to get all the services running securely as well as
achieve the same functionality I have with one of these server distros
in a production environment.

I would love to add speakup to the sme server distribution which I am
using now.  it is based on redhat 7.0 but is using kernel 2.2.197.08
which is not the standard kernel shipping with redhat 7.0  In theory, I
could get ethe source dor tis kernel which  I have and apply speakup
patches to the tree and recompile and just replace my vmlinuz file but
I don't know about moduel dependancies andthings and would probably
break a bunch of things.  has anyone else ever attemptedto compile
speakup into a server distribution.  I would be willing to switch from
mitel sme server to have this ability since I tend to reinstall
machines regularly and speakup would be a wonderful addition.

if anyone has done this or has any idea about how this could be
accomplished with either this distribution or something like clark
connect or some other distro, I would appreciate hearing from you.

thanks.  Brian.

Re: adding speakup to server distros

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Don't see why you couldn't add speakup to an Esmith distro.  Since linux is
licenced under the GPL, you should one way or another be able to get access
to the .config file used to make the kernel.  Then all you need to do is
add speakup to the sources and recompile.  They have to give you these
things, it's part of the GPL.

Geoff.

Re: adding speakup to server distros

[brian Moore]

Greetings.  It isn't a legal issuereally.  I'm sure they would accept
an rpm with the speakup compiled in and host it if I wanted to do that.
 it is more a know how issue.

will see if I can get the .config afile and give it a go.

Brian.


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On 1/2/02 at 8:58 PM Geoff Shang wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Don't see why you couldn't add speakup to an Esmith distro.  Since
linux is
>licenced under the GPL, you should one way or another be able to get
access
>to the .config file used to make the kernel.  Then all you need to do
is
>add speakup to the sources and recompile.  They have to give you these
>things, it's part of the GPL.
>
>Geoff.
>
>
>
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Re: adding speakup to server distros

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi,

     Everything you need should be in 
ftp://ftp.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.0/  RH released the 2.2.19-7.0.8 
kernel as an update, and if that's the kernel you have, then just replace 
it with the speakup enabled one from my site.




          HTH.
          Bill in Denver

Re: adding speakup to server distros

[brian Moore]

HI Bill.  thanks.  will give that a shot.  what the hell, let's see
what happens.  will make a test box and see if I can make it work.

thanks.  Brian.


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On 1/2/02 at 12:15 PM William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

>Hi,
>
>     Everything you need should be in 
>ftp://ftp.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.0/  RH released the 2.2.19-7.0.8 
>kernel as an update, and if that's the kernel you have, then just
replace 
>it with the speakup enabled one from my site.
>
>
>
>
>          HTH.
>          Bill in Denver
>
>
>
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