Yes Cris now I remember your last name which to me sounded familiar. Talk about reunions. Those wer the days when I used irc from a netcom shell and Bill Acker used ibm's OS to get into netcom as well. Nice to remember you, irc is still used and I still se it. Hope your hunting goes well. If you get slackware it comes with a speakup kernel all ready to go. Bill Acker has also provided redhat installation with speakup compiled into the kernel as well. And let's see, Frank has provided disks for Debian. On top of all that there are the other ways you can get linux working. To answer your question it does not matter which Linux you use as speakup is a part of the kernel which will run any distribution of Linux. -- If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net