Hi Greg: I'm not sure what's going on with Thomas's system. However, when I used the modified boot disk on the Speakup ftp site, I didn't have to do anything but run pppsetup to get ppp working. I haven't tackled ALSA yet, but, I know I'll need to either load the proper modules or compile a kernel with sound support. I'm not worried about this since I've done it before. I need to wait until I have more time free, though. At 10:11 PM 9/7/2001 -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: >Hi Thomas, > >For both pppd and sound to work, you need to load the respective kernel >modules first.