Hi, I've given up with the keypad on my desktop, and anyway my laptop has got a hard drive to spare. I'm wondering how Speakup will recognize a Dectalk Express connected via a USB serial adapter? My laptop doesn't have any built in serial ports, and so I have to use an adapter. Do I have to supply extra Kernel options to get it to boot? If not, how can I start speech after the Kernel has detected the USB device? Assuming, of course, that it supports it. Thanks, Zack