Hi Tommy, This is certainly a strange one. Your suggestions are most welcome. Londa will not need speakup right away, so that simplifies it somewhat. She just sent me the system description of her machine from Gateway, which says to get the details from their web site, and of course the web site uses Java for their request forms, so that door is blocked. Londa - how about visiting their web site and getting what you can about (1) your motherboard, and (2) your 13.6 GB 7200 RPM UATA Hard Drive... Those will be critical things to learn. It is looking like we will need a custom kernel of some sort - hopefully one of the alternatives to bare.i will do it, but we need the specs about motherboard and hard drive to proceed... Chuck *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (32% of Full)