John, If you installed everything during the package selection, brltty (albeit an old one) is ready to use. From the root prompt, type: brltty -b XX where XX is the name of your braille display; al for Alva, bn for BrailleNote, cb for CombiBraille, ... There's probably a file called /etc/brltty.conf that gives the details if they're not too succinct. As for the networking, try the command: dhclient If that doesn't work, read its documentation. (That's not quite a joke - I don't have it available here so can't check whether it's automatic or not. But if I did have it, I'd likely still try it first and read later.) Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list