Well, I can only give you a few suggestions because I don't know your exact arrangement. Is your linux source directory named linux? Linux-2.2.13 or whatever won't cut it. Are you sitting in the /usr/src directory when you run the patch command? If you are in the linux directory it won't work because it expects to patch to the directory linux. What version of patch are you using? my patch is version 2.5. Okay, let's start from there. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061