Hi Tom: Welcome to the list and don't worry about being redundant with questions. We tend to forget we answered them already anyway. I am not really sure about this because I don't build the distributions but I believe the decextb.bin may be for Dectalk External instead of the Express. I'm sure Bill Acker will correct me if I'm wrong. He is our resident Redhat expert. Did you have speakup running under Slackware? If so and you have a kernel with speakup laying arund from that you should be able to copy it into place on your Redhat box. Of course if you haven't managed to get Redhat installed yet, ignore the man behind the curtin. Good luck! Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061