1. Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with   grml-specific      kernel/Speakup/other options (Keith Hinton)

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 01:49:34 -0400 From: Keith Hinton keithint1234@gmail.com Subject: [Grml] Installing/configuring plain-Debian system with        grml-specific kernel/Speakup/other options To: grml grml@mur.at Message-ID:        AANLkTin_yIAofmE2JNUlpTHKXVUZsEg4nuDhaf3sg_Zf@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi, I have read all documentation available throughout http://www.grml.org itself. Despite all this, I am presented with a situation that I'm trying to figure out. The GRML kernel for quite sometime now (beginning with release 2009.10 and above) has continued to provide excilent support for my wireless card in a new laptop computer that I recently aquired. I happily have been executing grml-network to configure the wireless card, enable WPA-encryption, and everything else needed to launch primary networking on the GRML CD with the Speakup Linux screen reader, and as of right now am using present available stable release of GRML LiveCD. What I am trying to do is:

1. Install a Debian system (rather than GRML directly to hard-drive) however:
2. Somehow I need grml's kernel (the one compiled for 64-bit support)

the present available version to somehow be used in the Debian environment on my hard-drive, because you folks have already taken care of the Speakup modules, and the CPU frequency scailing and other options. I'm trying to figure out to do that, and the second thing I am asking for assistance in doing is: How to insure that WPA works out of the box with the given wireless network I'm trying to use (or that grml-network) will be able to make use out of the Debian system to assist me with this task. That's specifically what I'd like to do-I just don't want to have to spend millions of hours trying to fight the grml-specific stuff to get what I'm trying to get working. GRML's kernel is half the battle; the rest of this fight is in getting grml-network to work from within the plain Debian system on top of having GRML's 2.6.whatever kernel installed rather than the standard kernel that Debian would use-because that kernel would then require possible manual configuration-and I am not even sure if Speakup itself is a Debian package-I assume the GRML team uses Speakup from Debian Cid/Unstable.

If anyone from the GRML team could assist me in this matter or if anyone else using GRML specifically has any specific ideas on this process, I'd appreciate whatever assistance possible. While plenty of GRML documentation does exist, there isn't anything specific to what I'm trying to have done so that's why I'm asking here for any possible suggestions. (The hardware works perfectly fine on the GRML LiveCD system.) I'm just trying to figure out how to make sure that when I reboot, GRML's present kernel will run, along with Speakup/espeak/espeakup/etc, along with grml-network etc. I could of course install GRML itself via grml2hd, but would rather install a plain-Debian system instead. Thanks for helping.

Regards, --Keith

Keith,

I can confirm that the grml kernel installed and worked just fine on 64 bit Debian Sid. I did not try the speakup and related packages.