Hi all. Well I finally figured it out. It seems that the speakup.i and the color.gz files found on the Speakup website were the culprits. I kept trying to use the speakup.i file because it is supposed to be better with ppp, but I took a gamble and used the speakup.i file in the bootdsks.144 directory of the Slackware CD and it works. So in summary... My fix was to use the files off of the Slackware CD. Thank you to all that helped. I really appreciate it. Rodney
