I have not gotten to actually try this out but after I did a search for NetGear telnet interface, I found out there is some good news. If you do a google search for
netgear+series+n+telnet+interface One of the first articles that comes up is a step-by-step set of instructions for enabling the telnet capability on NetGear routers. It was posted last August 12 which is really weird as that happens to be my birthday. I bought the two routers in question this month so I would have had no interest in that post at the time. Let's hope this lets me finish what I needed to do which is to set the fancier 600-MW router up as our primary router and turn the other one in to a wireless AP to extend coverage to an area of our house where the signal is poor from the main router. To keep this message back on the original topic, a way to convince iceweasle to be happy outputting text to a command-line shell would be a game changer as those command-line shells are still much easier to come by and can be made to work on more platforms than X displays. I once briefly got ubuntu's live CD to run with speech but it was ubuntu version 9 and it had a nasty habit of crashing like another graphical OS whose name will not be stated, but it was nice to get a taste of what will most likely be the norm one day. I've been using Debian since around 2000 and at that time, computer users who happened to be blind needed to use yet another computer running MSDOS and Windows or just MSDOS, kermit and an external speech device to get access to either a telnet session or a serial console on the Linux system. I did the DOS/kermit/speech box thing until 2009 so things are much better now, just not as good as they could be yet. Again, thanks for the help. I had no idea there might be anything other than the web GUI so, unless they have just recently done away with the telnet interface, I should be able to get everything setup correctly which is the task at hand. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201302271952.r1rjqlic087...@x.it.okstate.edu