Well, I downloaded the latest Fedora, and it froze before entering the set up screen. This is the same behavior as before, where it halted, but if I did not call up SpeakUp, it went through the install, but I did not have speech at all. What would cause this? It does find my DecTalk, and I hear all of the BIOS memory addressing, but that is it, it freezes. I don't get any error either. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Glenn Glenn N0YJV MS Messenger: GlennErvin at CableOne.net Work: gErvin at NCBvi.state.ne.us