Folks, Was trying to compile a 2.4.20 kernel as I need this for a boot cd. I had some problems with the patching process, but didn't seem as though these were major patch problems. I can post the patch failures, but have miss-placed the file, however, here is what I got during the make bzImage process. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate it. make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/char/speakup' make all_targets make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/char/speakup' cc -o makemapdata makemapdata.c ./makemapdata >mapdata.h cc -o genmap genmap.c ./genmap speakupmap.map >speakupmap.h gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i486 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=speakup -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c speakup.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i486 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=speakup_drvcommon -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c speakup_drvcommon.c speakup_drvcommon.c: In function `speakup_register_devsynth': speakup_drvcommon.c:793: `SYNTH_MINOR' undeclared (first use in this function) speakup_drvcommon.c:793: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once speakup_drvcommon.c:793: for each function it appears in.) make[4]: *** [speakup_drvcommon.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/char/speakup' make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/char/speakup' make[2]: *** [_subdir_speakup] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 tia Scott