Yes I actually did that and that is when I got the error from awk. I also tried going ahead with the compliation after patching speakup, but I did get one hunk failure and after running make for the kernel the thing just bombed out. I am not having a problem with 2.6.7, but can't get 2.6.9 or 10 compiled. I have no idea what is going on, but will post the relavent error messages if anyone wishes to have a look. tnx Scott > >Did you do a make mrproper before patching Speakup into the kernel? If >not, you have to blow away your current source tree and start over. I'm >not sure what kernel version you last compiled, however the build >process has significantly changed between 2.4 and 2.6.