I had the same thought. However, this is a speakup boot disk, so it didn't make sense to me. If I'm correct, others have used that same boot image successfully with speakup. Greg On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:14:26AM +1000, Aaron Howell wrote: > at a guess, from looking at your dmesg output, > you have a kernel with serial support compiled as a module. > You'll need to build in serial support into the kernel if you want to use speakup. > The clue here is that there's not even an attempt to load the serial driver, > normally it should load and report no ports found if its compiled in and there isn't a serial port. > Regards > Aaron