Hi Patrick: From your log of the things you did you didn't mention running make oldconfig or make config or make menuconfig. I suspect you did but for the sake of completeness it should be included in the bug report. You also haven't mentioned whether you are compiling as modules or into the kernel. The only reason I point these things out is that obviously it is crapping out but from the partial log of what you've done it should have worked but it didn't. So a much closer examination is necessary of what was different on your attempt than all the folks that have successfully compiled speakup with 2.6.13 myself included. So please give us a tediously detailed log of what you did or maybe just blow away the tree and start over for grins. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061