Yeah, did you boot with a speakup kernel? From what I remember about slackware is that when you go to install the kernel off the boot disk it uses the keymap that's allready in it. But if it doesn't anymore then you'll have ot use the default.map file off of the speakup site and load it with: loadkeys default.map Or something like that and then you'll be ready to go. I don't remember where slackware stores the keymap file so can't rally help ya with that one.