Hi Chuck: This doesn't have anything to do with speakup. Usually make modules_install does a depmod -a which builds the modules.dep file. My guess is that you possibly ran make modules_install as a non-root user in which case it may not have been able to create the file. If you were root then I would run depmod -a by hand and see what it tells you. As a point of interrest those errors won't keep the new kernel from booting. They eventually stop. 'grin' You won't have any modules available of course. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061