Hi, Well I finally got a Linux box up and running. And now a few weeks later, brave old me wants to take a stab at a kernel compile. But not without a backup config. so I can run away screeming if needed! And actually, I'm now running a 2.6.6 kernel, but with no Speakup. Why? Well... When I run the install script in the speakup-1.5 directory here's what I get Patching version v26 Creating .orig files [cat: /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/patchlist-v26: No such file or directory ] done. Patching files [ppatch: install: extra operand patch: Try `patch --help' for more information. ] done. Copying files [ccp: copying multiple files, but last argument `speakup-announcement-1.5' is not a directory Try `cp --help' for more information. ] done. I looked and saw a speakup directory in the kernel sources so went ahead and made the kernel. But I wasn't asked anything about Speakup and sure enough, when it came reboot time, it didn't come up talking although it did at least come up! Any thoughts? Thanks.